colonialism lit.
new imperialism lit.
colonialism events
new imperialism events
Connections to the modern world
100

What graphic novel talks about uncovering women led slave revolts?

Wake by Rebecca hall

100

What type of control is shown in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Direct control

100

What year did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue?

1492

100

During what time stretch was the New Imperialism era?

1800-1950

100

What is the term for the spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to another by context 

Cultural Diffusion  

200

What book said “In that oppressive world where no one was free, Sierva Maria was: she alone“

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez 

200

Who says this in Rebecca Halls Wake”Sorry ma’am but Lloyd’s of London has a strict policy. We don’t allow historians to access our archives” (142).

The person at the insurance office 

200

When was The Treaty of Tordesillas 

1494

200

When was the Berlin conference?

 1884

200

How did wake connect to the modern world?

Wake made women feel more powerful.

300

how difficult was it to discover Women led slave revolts according to Rebecca hall in Wake

“Like finding needles in haystacks“ (Wake 24).

300

In what book is this from “’All our Gods are weeping… Our dead fathers are weeping because of this shameful sacrilege they are suffering and the abomination”

Things Fall Apart 

300

When was the last Kingdom in Central and South America conquered and what empire?

1697 and the Mayan empire

300

When was Chamberlains pro imperialist speech? 

1897

300

300 

300

400

How do British people feel about their role in the colonialism 

“The British would like us to think that their role in the trade was its abolition”(wake 132)

400

How did England get tea, something they are known for?

”[they] would love everyone to forget that the tea comes from their colonization of Asia” (Wake 127).

400

When did the Crown try and implement the New Laws in an attempted to end the severe abuse? 

1542

400

Who was the last nation to abolish slavery and when?

Brazil in 1888

400

400

400

500

How did Europeans try and conceal the deaths of the slaves during transport

Dumping bodies into the water

500

What novel describes the European taking over an African village from the perspective of a man who’s claim to fame is wrestlin?

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

500

When and who conquered the Aztec Empire

1519 and Hernán Cortés

500

When was the Gregson vs. Gilbert case

 1783

500

500 

500