World Civ 2 Ch 28 Quiz
Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by
1902.
The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by
Belgium.
Who said, "We are the finest race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race"?
Cecil Rhodes
The author of Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races was
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
The Boers were
Dutch settlers in the southern tip of Africa.
The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was
Egypt
Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of
France
After the overthrow of Queen Lili`uokalani in 1893, the United States took over
Hawai`i.
The term social Darwinism is associated with
Herbert Spencer.
The leader of the Taiping rebellion was
Hong Xiuquan.
In the nineteenth century, the majority of indentured laborers came from
India.
The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over
Korea.
Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the
Russo-Japanese War.
By 1900, the only part of southeast Asia NOT under European imperial rule was
Siam
In 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of
Singapore.
In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet near what modern city?
Sydney
Cecil Rhodes was
a leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa.
The colony of New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people, most of them
convicted criminals.
The Berlin West Africa Conference
devised the ground rules for the European colonization of Africa.
The key figures behind the uprising in 1857 in India were
disgruntled sepoy troops.
The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in
east Africa against the Germans.
The social Darwinists believed that
powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies.
Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of
tea.
The Suez Canal facilitated
the building and maintenance of empires.
The Abyssinian campaign of 1862 is an example of what phenomenon?
use of a foreign event by a local party to whip up domestic nationalism and gain politically from it
