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Britain traded with _______ and _______ more than their own colonies.
Latin America; United States.
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Who amassed the second largest empire?
France.
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Who was the German ruloer from 1888-1918?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
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What was the German ruler's main goal during his term in office?
To build a strong German navy.
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Governments encouraged citizens to view their nation as masculine in contrast to colonies who were seen as __________.
effeminate
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Which two countries were left untouched to colonialism in Africa?
Liberia and Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
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When was the Berlin Conference?
1884-1885.
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Who was the Prime Minister of Germany?
Otto von Bismarck
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What wast he main purpose of the Berlin Conference?
Over control of the Congo River in particular, and more generally, to lay the ground rules for colonization.
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How did the artificial entity of the "tribe" reconfigure African society?
It reconfigured ethnic and cultural identities in African society.
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How was the practice of slavery and slave trade handled at the Berling Conference?
Europeans enforced abolitonism to a much greated extent than before.
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What other forms of "slavery" offurred after the Berlin Conference?
Slave trading, and forced labor.
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Give an example of how the British benefitted from exploiting divisions between local communities.
Lonstanding commercial connections with coastal comunities provided them with a base of operations and a ready source of supplies.
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What happened at the Battle of Omdurman?
Field artillery and hand-driven Gatling machine guns allowed Anglo-Egyptian forces to kill 11,000 and wound 16,000 Sudanese soldiers with only 49 dead and 382 wounded among them.
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Under what terms was King Leopold granted control of the Congo region?
Free trading and shipping rights in the region for other European States.
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Today, the Congo Free State is known as the _______________________.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Which group met Belgium with resistance?
Arab Slave Traders
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Where were German traders and missionaries most active?
Togoland, Cameroon, South West Africa, East Africa.
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Give two examples of where Germany attempted to gain its own piece of Africa.
When Germany protested againt the Franco-Spanish; the Agadir Incident of 1911, when the Kaiser sent a gunboat to the Moroccan port of Agadir in a display of German power meant to intimidate the French.
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Where did Italy face embarrassment by losing againt African locals?
East Africa.
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What happened at the Battle of Adowa. Give five damn facts.
- 1) King Menelik's troops.
- 2) About 100,000 soldiers.
- 3) Using European breechloaders.
- 4) Defeated an Italian force of 14,5000.
- 5)Italian troops were equiped with inaccurate maps.
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What regions of Africa were dominated by France?
West Africa and North Africa.
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Which territories were known as French West Africa?
Ivory Coast, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali.
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Who controlled the Island of Madagascar by 1896?
France.
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Who is considered the maker of modern Egypt?
Evelys Baring (First Earl of Cromer)
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Why was General Charles Gordon known as "Chinese Gordon"?
Because of his role in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion.
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Who was known as the "Guided One"?
Mahdi.
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Who led resistance movements in the Sudan?
General Charles Gordon
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What was the main purpose of the British-Chartered Royal Niger Company?
In an effort to protect the commercial interests of British palm oil.
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How many lives were lost in the Boer War?
75,000 :c
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How many lives were lost in concentration camps in South Africa?
20,000! u_u
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Conquest shifted from Africa to _____ at the turn of the 20th century.
Asia.
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How much money was invested in railways by London financiers?
More than 2.5
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