Misc.
In 1830's, This country invaded and conquered Algeria, North Africa, eventually spreading it's influence along the Mediterranean into Tunisia, west and central Africa. The empire in Africa at its height was as large as the continental United States.
What is the French Empire?
She is Who George RR Martin initially plan to wed john snow.
Who is Aria?
Robert Fulton used this to power a ship.
What is a steam engine?
In 1900, 140,000 boxers suffering from famine, poverty and foreign aggression in China, trying to force out western influences started this battle.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
He left his career in medicine to lead china's new republic. ( 1911)
Who was Sun Yixian?
Good things about the British system:
1. They outlawed child marriages.
2. They outlawed sati, burning widows alive with dead husband.
3. They did away with the isolation of women in separate quarters called this.
What is Purdah?
This person kept the Hound's bloody cloak.
Who is Sansa?
Another name for provincial rulers in the Ottoman Empire.
What are Pashas?
The invention of this weapon made it possible for European armies to defeat African and Asian forces. ( It's named after the inventor)
What is the Maxim Gun( the Maxim Machine Gun)?
The one ancient Christian kingdom in East Africa that managed to resist European colonization.
What is Ethiopia?
Indian nationalist called the British system "Sakar ki Churi" which means this.
What is the knife of sugar?
Master Aemon's relationship to jon Snow.
What is great great uncle?
Asante Queen who fought the British in the last Asante war.
Who was Yaa Asantewaa?
This rebellion almost toppled the Qing dynasty. lasting from1850-1864, an estimated 250 million people died.
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
Leader of the Zulus in the early 1800's, ruthless, forced people out of their homes and absorbed young men and women in their regiments. Responsible for the growing Zulu Kingdom.
Who was Shaka.
At this Conference European powers recognized Leopold's private claim to the Congo, but established free trade. They agreed not to claim African land unless it had set up a government office there.
What was the Berlin conference?
This was used by Oberin to poison the Mountain.
What is manticore venom thickened by magic?
Famous greeting of Henry Stanley.
What is "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1839, War where British merchants meet Chinese warships after Britain refuses to stop shipping outlawed goods.
What is the Opium War?
When CI Xi, of the Qing Dynasty died in 1908, China slipped into chaos due to the age of the next Emperor. This was his age.
What is 2?
In 1914 this war begins in Europe.
What is WWI?
This caused Stanis to lose his faith in the seven.
What is seeing his parents killed, when their ship hit the rocks?
Name for the massive cutting of trees, like what happened in India after the Suez canal was finished to make farmland for trade goods.
What is deforestation?
This war lasted from 1899- 1902. The Dutch descendants of the Cape Colony vs. the British. The discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer Lands. Spoiler alert: Britain won.
What is the Boer war?
After ruling the shoa region in Ethiopia, he married the daughter of the emperor, becoming Emperor when he died.
Who was Menelik II?