HONOR'S Age Of Imperialism Question Preview (ID: 45624)


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Why did Queen Victoria call India the “Jewel in the Crown”?
a) it was rich in natural resources
b) it was rich in diamonds
c) it was rich in enslaved people to work for the British
d)

Name 2 inventions that helped speed up the European defeat of unindustrialized places.
a) musket and tanks
b) vickers machine gun and airplanes
c) maxim gun and steam engine
d)

What 2 former territories of the Ottoman Empire gain their freedom?
a) Macedonia and Albania
b) Turkey and Hungary
c) Greece and Serbia
d)

What European country does Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat in order to maintain their freedom?
a) Italy
b) Britain
c) Germany
d)

The Great Game was a war between Britain and Russia over what?
a) India
b) Ottoman Empire
c) Egypt
d)

What is the only Southeast Asian country to maintain their freedom?
a) Vietnam
b) Siam/Thailand
c) Japan
d)

What do you call it when a larger country has a hands off approach while using the smaller country’s resources?
a) direct rule
b) home rule
c) indirect rule
d)

What do the Europeans have that help them conquer the Africans?
a) superior weapons
b) immunities to diseases
c) alliance with Muslim leaders
d)

What are the only 2 countries that remain free of European rule by 1914?
a) Congo and Libya
b) Liberia and Ethiopia
c) South Africa and Morocco
d)

What Belgium king was responsible for the killing of at least 10 million Africans in the Congo?
a) King Richard III
b) King Francis X
c) King Leopold II
d)

What is the greatest source of wealth in Africa?
a) oil
b) raw materials
c) diamonds
d)

Who attacks (and ultimately losses to) the Ottomans in order to gain warm water ports?
a) Russians
b) British
c) Dutch
d)

What do the French come to call their portion of the Pacific Rim?
a) French Indochina
b) French East Indies
c) French New Guinea
d)

What is it called when a larger country controls all aspects of government and economy?
a) indirect rule
b) direct rule
c) home rule
d)

What was invented to help protect Europeans from malaria in foreign places?
a) penicillin
b) quinine
c) peroxide
d)

What was the “white man’s burden”?
a) the belief that Europeans had a moral responsibility to civilize primitive people
b) the belief that Europeans should feel guilty for colonizing areas in the world
c) the belief that Europeans had to pay back former slaves
d)

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