Geography
These two countries maintained their independence amidst African colonialism.
What were Ethiopia and Liberia?
Europeans believed it was their job to __________ African people and their cultures.
What is civilize?
This is when a foreign power acquires and exploits territory for their own economic and political benefit.
What is colonialism?
This person claimed "That was no brother! That was the worst enemy our country had ever seen."
Who was Chief Mojimba?
This country was founded as a British penal colony (meaning criminals were sent here for punishment).
What is Australia?
These two colonial powers took over the most territory in the continent of Africa.
Who are Britain and France?
This group promoted Christianity as a means of "civilizing" Africans; many saw Christianity as a morally and spiritually superior to local religions.
What are missionaries?
This is when a country exerts cultural, economic, or political influence over other societies. This includes a broad collection of policies to influence weaker states that may go beyond just taking territory.
What is imperialism?
These two important people were photographed by the missionary Rudolf Fisch.
Who were Pastor Koranteng and Akua Oye?
This person killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Who was Aaron Burr (sir)?
This country was colonized by King Leopold II of Belgium, explored by Henry Morton Stanley, and known for the atrocities at rubber planations.
What is the Congo Free State?
At this event, European leaders met together, without Africans, to divvy up territory in Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This is the right of a people to rule themselves.
What is sovereignty?
The Man and the Elephant was told by this tribe.
Who were the Kikuyu?
This Roman Emporer accidentally set fire to the Library of Alexandria.
Who was Julius Caesar?
These are four of the cash crops Africans grew to sell to colonial powers.
What were: peanuts, cotton, wheat, timber, palm oil, coffee, and cacao.
This is what Europeans named/called their (racist) ideas that they were responsible for "helping" other races to overcome barbarism, savagery, violence, and ignorance.
What is the White Man's Burden?
This is the word for when people are made to act similarly to or "in line with" a dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
After WWII, this organization became a place where colonized peoples could bring their concerns to an international audience.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This is the largest landlocked country in Asia.
What is Kazakhstan?
Following WWI, how did the map of colonial Africa change hands amongst European powers? (Who took what from whom?)
What is Britain, France, and Belgium took control of Germany's territories?
In 1900, this group first met to start combatting colonial and racist ideologies. They discussed the common plight of all people of African descent.
What was the Pan-African Congress?
This word describes a society in which inheritance (last names, family lines, etc.) are passed through the mother.
What is matrilineal?
With the approach of WWII, many African drew connections between colonialism and this political ideology.
What is fascism?
This desert stretches across northern China and southern Mongolia.
What is the Gobi Desert?