Chapter 27

After the British prohibited slavery in _______, Ashante merchants in West Africa switched to providing commodities that were in great demand in industrializing Britain.

1807

Although Egypt was granted internal independence in 1922, it remained in a semicolonial relationship with Britain until:

1956

The number of civil service members increased markedly, reaching about ____________ , as Britain implemented a gradual devolution of power to the Indians.

3000

According to its cultivation system in Indonesia, the Dutch forced native farmers either to grow government crops on 20 percent of their land or work for _____ days per year on Dutch plantations.

60

Australia was very similar to independent Latin America in that it was a labor-poor but ________ seeking its wealth through export-led growth.

Commodity-rich region

The US considered __________________ a leader of a guerilla war in the Philippines, but he saw himself as a leader of Filipino independence.

Emilio Aguinaldo

In their determination to establish colonial rule in the region, the German general staff ordered the extermination of the __________ in Southwest Africa, in terms that can only be described as a genocide.

Herero

David Livingstone's ultimate goals were not only to _________ but also to "civilize" Africans by broadcasting the blessings of Christianity and commerce.

Hutus

The Great Mutiny was touched off by the rumor that the British intended to:

Introduce a rifle which required its operator to bite the end from a gunpowder cartridge greased with cow and pig fat

Religious scholars of the 1800s succeeded in making ________ the dominant religion of West Africa.

Islam

Charles X of France claimed that his blockade of Algiers was justified because:

It was in response to an insult by an Algerian Dey to his agent.

After several years of encroachment into the region, Italy declared a protectorate over ____________ in 1888.

Somaliland

The effort to co-opt local rulers into upholding the British government as the historically destined status quo is sometimes called a(n):

Subaltern relationship.

The leader of the Khartoum uprising in 1883 was Muhammad Ahmad Ibn Abdallah, a(n) ________ and self-styled Mahdi ("rightly guided" or "Messiah").

Sufi

In a ca. 1815 painting, an Indian artist depicted a British government official in a pose of:

Supplication to Akbar Shah at his court.

As a result of its loss of Mexico in the early 1800s, Spain began turning to its colony in _____________ for agricultural and natural resource exploitation.

The Philippines

The takeover of India by the British East India Company was aided by:

The use of the Company's sepoy armies in the struggles of regional leaders.

The original goal of the National Congress when it convened in 1885 was to:

Win greater autonomy for India within the structure of the British Empire

Because of _________________, E. D. Morel was able to publicize the mistreatment and exploitation of African slave labor on Belgian rubber plantations in Congo.

his position as a clerk in an English firm with interests in Congo

When quinine became available in the middle of the 1800s, allowing for treatment of ___________, European missionaries were able to follow their indigenous colleagues into the African interior.

malaria