Causes
This the term for European Powers colonizing different African nations.
What is the Scramble for Africa.
This country was considered the crown jewel of the British empire
What is India?
This leader of the Zulu nation fought against the British in Southern Africa.
Who was Shaka Zulu?
This piece of technology decreased the cost of transporting raw materials from Africa to Europe?
What are Railroads?
A canal built by the Egyptians to make shipping easier between Europe, Africa, and Asia.
What was the Suez Canal?
The pseudo-scientific theory that only those with the strongest genes survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
This was the only African nation to resist European dominance.
What is Ethiopia?
A violent uprising in Northern India known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
What was the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Imperialist powers force colonies to grow these: Rubber, cotton, and sugar.
What are Cash Crops?
An Australian native group that is the oldest continuous culture on Earth.
Who were the Aboriginal people?
The English trading company with a monopoly on trade in the East Indies.
What was the East India Company?
This was the only African Possession held by Belgium.
What is the Congo
This was the Polynesian people who fought against British rule in Oceania?
Who are the Maori of New Zealand?
A lack of agricultural diversity
What is a monoculture?
The 19th century scientist who wrote the theory of evolution
Who was Charles Darwin?
An English Poet who wrote the White Man’s Burden.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
The German leader who organized the Berlin Conference.
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
The Filipino people resisted occupations by both of these powerful states.
Who are the Spanish and Americans?
These were the valuable minerals extracted from colonies in North America, Asia, and Africa.
What are Diamonds, Gold, and Silver?
This country was partitioned and annexed by Russia and Austria-Hungary. It wouldn't become independent again until the 1980s
What is Poland?
The growing idea of European superiority in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is nationalism?
The declaration that European nations should not intervene in western hemisphere affairs.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This was the warrior queen that led a rebellion against the British the last African woman to do so.
Who was Yaa Asantewaa?
The founder of De Beers Diamonds and investor to the Cape to Cairo Railroad.
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
An economic war waged between China and Britain over trade.
What were the Opium Wars?