The World Economy and the Global Environment
Latin America
Asia and the Pacific Islands
Sections of Africa
Who
100
The passageway in Latin America which cut travel time and freight costs.
What is the Panama Canal
100
Were key in connecting mines and agricultural regions to ports.
What are railroads
100
Used their modern weapons to advance into Central Asia.
What is Russia
100
The wealthiest and most populated country in Africa.
What is Egypt
100
American journalist who explored the Congo Basin.
Who is Henry Morton Stanley
200
Was built to reach from Moscow to Vladivostok.
What is the Trans-Siberian railroad
200
The three factors brought to Latin America by the U.S. and Britain because of the lack of steel.
What are building material, money, and engineers.
200
The three factors that attracted Europeans to Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
What is fertile soil, favorable climate, and a highly developed agriculture market.
200
The key "construction project" built by the British which contributed to the boom in Egypt's agricultural markets.
What is the dam across the Nile River
200
The Italian officer serving in the French Army.
Who is Savorgnan de Brazza
300
The Industrial revolution further expanded the demand for these. (4 of them).
What is Tea, coffee, cocoa, raw materials, cotton, jute, palm oil, diamonds, gold, copper, timber, and rubber.
300
The reason why U.S. was determined to support Jose Marti's revolution in Cuba.
What is the U.S. invested money in Cuba's sugar and tobacco industries.
300
Introduced by colonial regimes in Southeast Asia and Indonesia to increase productivity for little cost.
What are Chinese and Indian laborers
300
Three key components which lured Afrikaners to Southern Africa throughout the 19th century.
What is farmland, diamond deposits, copper, and(or) iron ore.
300
The leader of a secret society in the Philippines that proclaimed a republic in 1898.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo
400
The significance of gardens.
What is exchanging valuable plants from one tropical region to another while introducing new plants.
400
The reason why Spain was told to leave Cuba
What is the explosion of the U.S. Maine
400
The country Emilio Aguinaldo fought against in the Philippines in 1898
What is Spain
400
These two components sparked the South African War.
What is the attempt to annex Transvaal and Orange Free State along with the inflow of English-speaking whites.
400
South Africans who were descendants from Dutch and French settlers of the 17th century.
Who are Afrikaners
500
The biggest impact of irrigation canals
What is turning barren acres into well waterable farmland.
500
The four reasons Europeans used financial power instead of territory acquisitions to penetrate Latin America.
What are overextended in Africa and Asia, the political backing by Latin American govt. for economic arrangements, Latin Americans being capable of resisting invasion, and the protection of the Western Hemisphere by the U.S.
500
The response America took in 1899 to soften its rule in the Philippines.
What is introducing public works and economic development projects.
500
One reason why Britain, France and Germany decided to occupy West Africa.
What is a flourishing trade network.
500
The ambitious British businessman who was involved in the diamond business along with politics throughout Africa.
Who is Cecil Rhodes