World Civ 2 Ch 28 Quiz

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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


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