Vocabulary
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically occupied by settlers from that country.
What is a colony?
European nations met here to lay down the rules for the division of Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The location of a brutal humanitarian crisis where King Leopold II licensed companies that brutally exploited Africans to obtain rubber.
What is the Congo?
Leader of the Berlin Conference
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
The world's first automatic machine gun?
What is the Maxim gun?
The belief that one race is superior to another.
What is racism?
An armed struggle over South Africa involving the Afrikaners, British, and black South Africans.
What is the Boer War?
In 1878, European claims to African lands were mostly located along the ________________ of Africa.
What is coast?
A Zulu chief who used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state.
Who is Shaka?
Number of languages in Africa at the time of European colonization.
What is more than 1,000?
Transforming an economy from agriculture to a reliance on manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
What was happening in Europe in the 19th century that encouraged European nations to seek natural resources and raw materials in other regions?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Location of a Dutch settlement in South Africa
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
King who commissioned Henry Stanley to obtain land in the Congo.
Who is King Leopold II of Belgium?
__________________ and ________________ were discovered in South Africa in the 1860s and 1880s, leading to a rush of people from European nations.
What are diamonds and gold?
The policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
The spreading of Christianity to Asia, Africa, and the New World by European missionaries.
What is Christianization?
When were the Boer republics joined into the self-governing Union of South Africa after the British won the Boer War?
What is 1910?
A missionary from Scotland who supported the rights and freedoms of native people suppressed under European imperialism.
Who is David Livingstone?
Increasing connection of economy, culture, and politics between world cultures and people.
What is globalization?
Non-Europeans were viewed as inferior on the scale of cultural and physical development because they had not made the progress that Europeans had; therefore, Europeans felt they had the right and duty to bring the progress they made to other people.
What is Social Darwinism?
The capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.
What is power?
By 1914, which two regions were the only areas free from European control?
What are Liberia and Ethiopia?
In 1878, who maintained control over Egypt and Tripoli? By 1914, this group had no control over any parts of Africa.
Who are the Ottomans?
What is nationalism?