history quiz

The "white man's burden" proposed by Rudyard Kipling referred to the

All these answers are correct.

Which of the following improved communication between India and Britain?

All these answers are correct.

Which of the following was NOT an economic motivation for imperialism?

European and American industry needed more sources of coal.

The Battle of Omdurman clearly demonstrated that

European troops with modern weapons could subdue a vast native army.

Cecil Rhodes was

a leading British imperialist active in south Africa.

One social goal of the British authorities in India was to

establish English-style schools for children of Indian elites.

The Mughal dynasty fell primarily because

the East India Company established powerful, coastal trading forts.

Under British imperial rule, India was governed

with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants.