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The dynasty that the Song Dynasty replaced?

What was the Tang Dynasty

100

This country was one of the smallest in Europe at the time but controlled a large central part of Africa during the imperialization of the continent.

What is Belgium

100
The deliberate attempt to destroy a racial, political, or cultural group of peoples from the face of the earth.
What is Genocide.
100

Three luxury trade goods that traveled along the Grand Canal.

what are silk, porcelain, and tea?

100

A more spiritual version of Islam that appealed to women and the lower-classes.

What is Sufism?

200
Britains hunger for these types of agricultural goods put a strain on Indias food supply and famine soon swept accross India.
What are Cash Crops
200

The Dutch descendants that had settled in South Africa were also known as this.

What are Boers or Afrikaans?

200
This was discovered in the region and many European countries came to focus on the middle east because of it.
What is Oil
200

British merchants began making huge profits by trading this to the Chinese for Chinese tea.

What is Opium

200

Throughout the 1800’s, an increased need for both raw materials and new markets for manufactured goods led various European nations to pursue this policy.

What is the policy of Imperialism

300
India was considered this to the British Empire.
What is the Jewel In the Crown of the British Empire.
300
The one country that kept its independence during the imperialization of Africa.
What is Ethiopia
300

The Suez Canal and eventually Egypt itself would become a protectorate and under the control of this state?

What was the British Empire?

300

The war that gave Japan the control of the island of Taiwan.

What is the Sino-Japanese War

300

A syncretic language created from Muslim traders and the languages along the East coast of Africa.

What is Swahili?

400
This was a rebellion against the British by Indians who felt that the British were infringing on, both, Muslim and Hindu religious practices.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny
400
He is the best known explorer and missionary who crisscrossed Africa and wrote about the many people with less bias than most.
Who is Dr. David Livingstone
400
The man made trading pass that stretched for more than 100 miles to connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, which shortened the travel distance and time from Western Europe to ports in East Africa and Asia.
What is the Suez Canal
400

The anti-foreign secret society in China during the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Who are the Boxers or the Righteous Harmonious Fists

400

A commercial alliance formed in northern Germany and Scandinavia that controlled trade out of Europe.

What was the Hanseatic League?

500

Settlements of people away from their homeland, like Muslim trading communities in India.

What are diasporas or ethnic enclaves?

500
The idea in the 19th that Europeans had a responsibility to improve the lives of their colonial peoples.
What is the White Mans Burden
500

This man-made an attempt to redefine Egypt in the 1800's. He introduced reforms in the region and is sometimes called the "father of Egypt".

Who was Muhammad Ali?

500

This allowed free trade among the imperial powers within China, even the United States (though the U.S. did not have a sphere of influence in China).

What is the Open Door Policy

500

A staple crop, brought from Vietnam that increased the population of East Asia due because it was drought-resistant and could yield two crops a year.

What is Champa Rice?