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Africa stuff
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conquest of one or more nations by another nation | Colonialism |
| domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region | Imperialism |
| An economic system that allowed more Africans to access wealth coming into Africa by harvesting the continent's natural resources. | Gathering-based economy |
| Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He militarized and modernized his country and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896). | Menelik II |
| developed a modern army with current weapons to defend the Wassoulou Empire | Samori Ture |
| The Empire in Africa, led by Samori Ture, that resisted European colonization | Wassoulou Empire – |
| An African organization formed in 1868 by African pastors and teachers to maintain self-rule. | Fante Confederation |
| Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) | David Livingstone |
| – a 355-foot waterfall on the Zambezi River in South Central Africa that means "the smoke that thunders" | Victoria Falls |
| British-American explorer of Africa, famous for his expeditions in search of Dr. David Livingstone. He helped King Leopold II establish the Congo Free State. | Henry Stanley |
| pioneer missionary and Bible translator & one of the first missionaries to Africa | Robert Moffat |
| The first African bishop in the Anglican Church, who translated the Bible into the Yoruba language | Samuel Ajayi Crowther |
| Exploited by Leopold II of Belgium under the Berlin Act, Leopold was supposed to act as a trustee. He violated the agreement and stripped the country of its resources. | Belgian Congo |
| – Disproved claims of the racial inferiority of the black man; wrote "West African Countries and Peoples: A Vindication of the African Race" | John Africanus Horton |
| – A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa | Berlin Conference |
| First fully automatic machine gun; an item of technology that helped Europeans conquer Africa | Maxim Gun |
| The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | Infrastructure |
| The term given for the rapid invasion of Africa by the various European powers. This began imperialism in Africa. | Scramble for Africa |
| A government organization that oversees the details of managing a state | Bureaucracies |
| A conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers (Dutch settlers) and the British fought for control of territory in South Africa. | Boer War |
| A West African people who formed several kingdoms in what is now Benin and Southern Nigeria, whose language Crowther translated the Bible | Yoruba |
| The French Empire had a desire for colonies, so it began with the invasion of Algeria | Second French Colonial Empire |
| Supposedly a humanitarian organization run by King Leopold of Belgium, but one that actually encouraged the harsh treatment and torture of African slaves | International African Association (IAA) |
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