South Africa
Machines, labor, and Innovation
Life and Society
Africa and India
Ottoman and United States
China
Puzzles
100
These Dutch-descended settlers formed their own communities in South Africa and later fought Britain for control of the region.
Who were the Boers?
100
This invention powered trains, ships, and factories by converting coal’s heat into motion.
What is the Steam Engine?
100
The term for the rapid growth of cities as people moved from rural areas to work in factories.
What is Urbanization?
100
Policy of extending a nation’s power by controlling territories or influencing other regions.
What is Imperialism?
100
This canal built by the U.S. connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to speed global trade.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
This addictive drug was sold by the British to China, creating widespread addiction and giving Britain a major trade advantage.
What is opium?
100
D. Each line contains two red dice and one blue die. Each line contains a two, a three and a five. The missing image is of a red die, number three.
200
This British imperialist used his diamond fortune to expand British control in South Africa and dreamed of a continuous empire “from Cape to Cairo.”
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
200
The Scottish engineer who improved the steam engine and made it efficient enough to power factories.
Who was James Watt?
200
The social group made up of factory laborers who often faced poor living and working conditions.
Who were the Working Class?
200
This 1884–1885 meeting divided Africa among European powers with no regard for native borders.
What was the Berlin Conference?
200
This 1823 U.S. policy warned Europe not to colonize or interfere in the Americas.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
200
This 1842 agreement ended the First Opium War and forced China to give Britain control of Hong Kong.
What was the Treaty of Nanking?
200
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.
300
This 1879 conflict began when the British invaded a powerful African kingdom led by King Cetshwayo, resulting in early British defeats such as Isandlwana.
What was the Zulu War?
300
The use of identical components that could easily be replaced or assembled increased factory efficiency.
What are Interchangeable Parts?
300
The new social group of factory owners, merchants, and professionals that grew during the Industrial Revolution.
Who were the Middle Class?
300
Belgian king who personally owned the Congo Free State and exploited it for rubber.
Who was Leopold II?
300
The 1898 war that resulted in U.S. control of Cuba and the Philippines.
What was the Spanish-American War?
300
These were the three main things that Europe wanted from China
What are porcelain, silk, and tea?
300
I’m full of keys, but I can’t open a single door.
What am I?
A keyboard
400
These types of mines were one of the main reasons that England was intent on controlling South Africa
What are diamond mines?
400
The method of production where each worker performs one task repeatedly to speed up output.
What is the Assembly Line?
400
The use of young people to work long hours in dangerous conditions for little pay.
What is Child Labor?
400
The 1857 rebellion of Indian soldiers against British rule caused by religious and cultural tensions.
What was the Sepoy Mutiny?
400
These were the elite forces of the Sultans. They often betrayed them if their special treatment was taken away
Who are the Janissaires?
400
This was the only payment that China would accept
What is Silver?
400
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A towel.
500
This was the color of the English uniforms for their first wars in South Africa. They later changed it after they were defeated several times
What is Red?
500
Organizations formed by workers to demand better pay, shorter hours, and safer conditions.
What are Labor Unions?
500
This disease ran rampant throughout cities in crowded aprtment buildings with poor health conditions
What is Cholera?
500
This is the term for the types of plants that England demanded India change its farming structure to grow
What are Cash Crops?
500
This powerful Ottoman sultan ruled during the empire’s golden age.
Who was Suleiman the Magnificent?
500
This was the dynasty that ruled China for hundred of years until 1912
What is the Qing Dynasty?
500
I can fly without wings.
I can cry without eyes.
Whenever I go, darkness flies.
What am I?
A cloud