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Imperialism daly
Imperialism vocab review daly
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Products found in India | tea, jute, cotton, spices, rice, sugarcane, wheat |
| European Trading Company in India | British East India Company |
| subcontinent | a large, self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent |
| Mountain Range in northern India | Himalayas |
| Important rivers in India | Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra |
| Sepoys | Hired Indian soldiers |
| direct rule | colonial government in which local officials are removed from power and replaced by a new set of officials from the mother country |
| indirect rule | colonial government in which local rulers are allowed to maintain their positions of authority and status |
| Causes of the Sepoy Rebellion | Rumors of animal fat used on cartridges |
| cash crop | crop grown for sale rather than personal use |
| Effect of the Sepoy Rebellion | British government directly controlled India Ris of Indian nationalism |
| Imperialism | the extension of a nation's power over other lands |
| European nations that imperialized | Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal |
| Man-made water route in Northeast Africa important for trade | Suez Canal |
| Boers | Dutch descendants in southern Africa |
| British man who made millions in southern Africa | Cecil Rhodes |
| Name of diamond company | DeBeers |
| Two sides of the Boer War | British versus Boers |
| This man had own personal colony in Congo | King Leopold II of Belgium |
| Important product found in Congo | Rubber |
| apartheid | "apartness" the racial segregation in South Africa |
| Medical missionary who explored Central Africa | David Livingstone |
| This man went to search for Livingstone | Henry M Stanley |
| What did Livingstone discover? | Victoria Falls and Arab Slave trade |
| Name the Queen of Great Britain during the nineteenth century | Victoria |
| City settled as trading post in southern Africa | Cape Town |
| What was the interest of Europeans in Africa called? | "Scramble for Africa" |
| What was the Berlin Conference? | European nations divided Africa among themselves |
| India was called this by the British empire | "Jewel of the Crown" |
| viceroy | a governor who ruled as a representative of the monarch |
| Benefits of British rule in India | Railroads and roads built, canals, box tunnels, electricity, universities, medical centers, postal service |
| Disadvantages of British rule in India |