The extremely low-ball offer that Captain Cook offered the natives of Hawaii after destroying their temple?
What is 2 hatchets?
100
Originally Europeans had to produce a lot of this precious metal, because it was the only things that the Chinese wanted, but later they also traded for this drug. Name both products.
What are silver and opium?
100
These people are very smart because they live in Hawaii.
Who are the Hawaiians?
100
This man mapped both Australia and New Zeland.
Who is Captain James Hook?
100
The man who invented the deadliest gun the world had ever seen in the 19th century.
Who was Hiram Maxim?
200
James Cook was a naval officer that served in this war.
What is the Seven Years War?
200
Three African diseases that killed Europeans during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
What are yellow fever, malaria and sleeping disease?
200
This man wrote of the "white mans' burden", which made it seem as though the Europeans' duty was to "extract wealth from the world".
Who was Rudyard Kipling?
200
The French philosopher, Montesquieu, supported this type of government.
What is Despotism?
200
This was the elusive route said to exist between the Atlantic and Pacific through what is now Canada.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
Captain Cook introduced these animals to Australia.
What are sheep?
300
The first involves the destruction of the native culture and colonization of the area with non-locals; while the second involves utilization of the government that is already in place and mining for natural resources.
What are colonization and imperialism?
300
China "lacks no product within its borders, except for this."
What is silver?
300
This book, published in 2012, states that nations are successful when they are this. Name the book and the term.
What is 'Why Nations Fail' and inclusive?
300
This civil war, possibly the most destructive in world history, resulted in Great Britain becoming the dominant economic power in China in the 19th century.
Who was the Taiping Rebellion?
400
Captain Cook was the first sea captain to avoid this disease among his crew.
What is scurvy? Bonus 100 pts. ... how does one avoid scurvy or what causes it?
400
In the treaty of Nanjing, the Chinese agreed to give the Europeans these three things for opium.
What are Hong Kong, 5 other ports, and the equivalent of 2 billion dollars in cash?
400
"________ is west of China, which is sort of wrong, and right, because we live on a globe."
What is 'The West'?
400
Fukuyama asserted that the success of nation-states depended on the rule of law and that the concept of law superior to those individuals in power came from this institution.
What is organized religion?
400
When one individual has 2 or more wives/husbands.
What is the definition of bigamy?
500
The years Captain Cook's three voyages across the pacific.
What are 1768-1771; 1772-1775; 1716-1780(died in 1779)?
500
From 1000 to 1.2 million in 80 years.
What is Anglo-Australians?
500
This is the reason why "bananas are so cheap, why your call centers are in India, why your chocolate is from Africa, and why everything else is made in China."
What is Imperialism?
500
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans became obsessed with these things.
What is science ... or mapping, charting and classifying the world. Darwin, anyone?
500
The first code of law that truly defined that culture as a civilization.