Congo
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Vocabulary
100

The Welsh Journalist who was famous for exploring Central Africa on a search for David Livingstone and helping King Leopold map the Congo

Who is Henry Stanley?

100

Deliberate and systemic killing of people who belong to a particular race, ethnic or cultural group.


What is genocide

100

The policy of one country's political, economic, or cultural domination over other lands and territories

What is Imperialism

200
The second king of the Belgians, and is most remembered for the founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture
Who is King Leopold II?
200

These two countries remained free of European imperialism

What is Liberia and Ethiopia

200

A poem that the imperialists within the United States of America as justifying imperialism as a noble enterprise. At face value it appears to be a command to white men to colonize and rule other nations for the benefit of those people

What is the White Man's Burden?

300
A conference held in 1884, also known as the Congo Conference, regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period
What is the Berlin Conference?
300

When an outside power claims rights and privileges over an area or region. It is usually for trading and investment, and sometimes military.

What is sphere of influence

300

.Which event is depicted in this political cartoon?

What is the Berlin Conference

400

The name of the Dutch who settled in South Africa after their ship went afoul 

Who are the Boers

400

This was the motive for Belgium and King Leopold to take over the Congo

What is rubber

400

Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

What is nationalism

500
A war in which Great Britain fought against the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, from 1899 to 1902
What is the Boer War?
500

A country located in eastern Africa, derived prestige for its uniquely successful military resistance during the late 19th-century “Scramble for Africa”; it also was the only African country to defeat a European colonial power and retain its sovereignty as an independent country.

What is Ethiopia?

500

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

What is propaganda