Bodies of Water
Famous Leaders
Revolutions
Industrialization
New Imperialism
100

The Crimean peninsula is located in this sea

What is the Black Sea?

100

He was the most prominent military leader of the Haitian Revolution but died in 1803 after being betrayed

Who is L'Ouverture?

100

The "third estate" were the major insurgents in this European revolution

What is the French Revolution?

100

This country was the first to capitalize on the original Industrial Revolution

What is England? [UK or Great Britain also acceptable]

100

This characteristic new imperialism product was harvested from trees in the Belgian Congo in tortuous, slave-like conditions

What is rubber?

200

This is the body of water between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago

What is the Sea of Japan?

200

This leader united his tribe into a nation and conquered neighbors during the Mfecane in Southern Africa (c. 1818-1828)

Who is Shaka Zulu?

200

This "restoration" could be considered a kind of revolution, as the rule of a military shogunate was replaced by a constitutional monarchy

What is the Meiji Restoration?

200

The most important metal alloy of the "Second" Industrial Revolution

What is steel?

200

This communications device (seen in the Cecil Rhodes cartoon and in the film clip about Perry) greatly aided the new imperialism

What is the telegraph?

300
Even though this feat of engineering was in Ottoman Egypt, it was owned by an international company of mostly French and British investors.

What is the Suez Canal?

300

This Caracas-born creole wrote the "Jamaica Letter" and was known as "The Liberator"

Who is Bolivar

300

France, Italy, Prussia, Austria-Hungary, and even a few more countries all experienced revolution in this famous year of tumult

What is 1848

300

This was one of the characteristic new power sources of the "First" industrial Revolution

What is steam? 

OR What is coal?

300

This meeting was intended to peacefully divvy up Africa amongst European powers

What is the Berlin Conference

400

After exploring this major central African river, Henry Morton Stanley was contracted by King Leopold II to build a railroad in order to circumvent the river's rapids and waterfalls

What is the Congo River?

400

This French Revolutionary sought to instill a "Republic of Virtue" and even changed the calendar, holidays, and names of the weekdays

Who is Robespierre?

400

Hong Xiuquan led this rebellion that turned into a civil war, killing an estimated 20-30 million Chinese people

What is the Taiping Rebellion

400

This was one of the characteristic new power sources of the "Second" Industrial Revolution

What is petroleum?

OR What is electricity?

400

This characteristic new imperialism product can be used as a food additive, made into margarine, and also has industrial applications

What is palm oil?