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100
What was the Suez Canal?
Canal built in Egypt
100
Who was Queen Victoria
Empress of India
100
What was the Panama Canal?
Central American canal
100
What is imperialism?
extending a nation's power by acquiring or gaining control over new territories
100
Who was Mutsuhito?
Emperor who established the reign of "enlightened rule"
200
What was the Boer War?
War between the British and the Dutch settlers
200
What was the British East India Company?
Trading company that controlled most of India
200
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
U.S. policy that foreign nations must not take any new latin American colonies.
200
What are raw materials?
Goods needed to feed industrial production
200
Who was King Leopold II of Belgium?
Person who was the first European "owner" of the Congo basin area
300
Where were diamonds found?
Gems found in Cape Colony
300
What was the Opium War?
War that opened China to increased British rule
300
What was the Isthmus of Panama?
Strip of land the Central American canal crossed
300
What was manpower?
Colonies provided this important resource for armies
300
Who was Menelik II?
Ethiopian emperor whose army crushed the invading Italians
400
What is Morocco?
Country on the western end of North Africa
400
What was Meiji (or the Meiji Era)?
the reign of "enlightened rule"
400
What is the reason for a country called Bolivia?
Simon Bolivar who fought for Bolivia's independent from Spain
400
What were treaty ports?
Ports opened by treaty to foreign nations
400
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Man who arranged the peace between Russia and Japan
500
What was the Ottoman Empire?
Empire that controlled most of North Africa in the 1800s
500
What was the Open Door Policy?
U.S. - backed policy of giving all nations equal trading rights in China
500
What was Colombia?
The U.S. helped Panama gain its freedom from this country
500
What was Social Darwinism?
Social theory that people who were wealthy and powerful were superior to poorer and less powerful people
500
Who was David Livingstone?
Scottish missionary and renowned explorer