This uprising lasted from 1899 until 1901 and showed the weakness of the Qing Dynasty as foreign forces were needed to quell the revolt.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
100
This kingdom in South Africa successfully contested British rule for several years.
What was the Zulu Kingdom?
or Who were the Zulus?
100
Japan began to modernize itself after members of the Sat-Cho alliance of Japanese elites ended the rule of this shogunate.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
100
This ideology held that European technological and economic superiority during the 19th century was due to Europeans being "more fit" than other races of the world.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
This term means a Japanese lord who was a vassal to the shogun.
What is daimyo?
200
As a result of the first Opium War (1839-1842) Great Britain opened 5 Chinese ports for trade and was ceded this island.
What is Hong Kong?
200
The British outlawed the slave trade in this year and began to actively use their navy to stop slavers.
What is 1807?
200
Japan's era of isolation ended after a visit to Edo (Tokyo) by this American commodore?
Who is Matthew Perry?
or Who is Perry?
200
The European world was greatly shaken when the Japanese defeated this white nation in a modern war in 1905.
What is Russia?
200
These Dutch settlers arrived in South Africa in the 1600s.
Who were the Boers?
300
Chinese attempts at self-strengthening reforms in the 19th century were thwarted by this conservative widow of a deceased emperor.
Who was Cixi?
or
Who was the Dowager Empress?
300
Angered by more the more liberal policies of the British toward blacks in South Africa, Dutch (or Boer) settlers migrated deeper into the African interior in this great migration.
What is the Great Trek?
300
Although Japan copied many Western ways, it resisted giving more rights to this subset of its society.
Who are women?
300
This term originally meant a Muslim governor in Mughal India, but it was later used to describe Europeans who made a fortune in India.
What a "nabob"?
300
Europeans tried to end practices that they considered inhumane such as this Hindu practice of burning widows to death.
What is sati?
400
The small, British-held fishing village of Shanghai grew enormously when tens of thousands of Chinese moved there to seek British protection during this 1850-1864 uprising.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
400
In the late 1800s, Britain began to take over ever greater control of Egypt in order to protect this.
What is the Suez Canal?
400
The period of Japanese self-strengthening is called this-- although it is inaccurate because the emperor was not really put back into power.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
400
African rebels in this 1905-1907 revolt against German imperial rule thought that a magic liquid applied to their bodies would protect them from machine gun fire.
What is the Maji Maji Revolt?
400
This was the period in the late 1800s when many European countries raced to create colonies in the "dark continent", as it was called.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
500
The Taiping Rebellion began when this disgruntled postal worker found and misinterpreted a Christian pamphlet left by Western missionaries.
Who is Hong Xiuquan?
500
France established a "white settler colony" in this North African holding, and tens of thousands of French moved there.
What is Algeria?
500
Tokyo was called this before it was called Tokyo.
What is Edo?
500
During the Meiji period of Japanese history, the system of estates was abolished. This term refers to both a Japanese estate and an early Chinese dynasty.
What is han?
500
At this meeting in Germany in 1885, several European nations decided the "ground rules" for how they would colonize Africa without going to war with each other.