Vocabulary

Question 1

Assimilation

Answer 1

Is the process by which an individual or minority’s group loses its original culture when absorbed into another culture

Question 2

Colony

Answer 2

A country or territory is governed internally by foreign power (direct)

Question 3

Protectorate

Answer 3

A country/ territory is governed by its own leaders but it’s under the power of an outside power ( indirect ) aka a “puppet state”

Question 4

Sphere of influence

Answer 4

A country / territory where the foreign power has exclusive training rights

Question 5

Economic imperialism

Answer 5

A country / territory is controlled by a private business rather than the government.

Question 6

Maji Maji

Answer 6

Rebellion in east Africa that failed, magic water could protect against the army. 75,000 were killed

Question 7

Ethiopia

Answer 7

Resisted imperialism. Resistance led by kind Menilek II - obtained modern weapons and defeated the Italians.

Question 8

Libraria

Answer 8

Another country that resisted imperialism. Protected by the USA - it was a ex slave colony. So the Europeans left them alone

Question 9

Ottoman Empire

Answer 9

Controlled the Middle East region for 300 yrs, but for the, power was on the decline.

Question 10

Geopolitics

Answer 10

An interest in the taking of land for its strategic location or products.

Question 11

Middle East ( crossroads )

Answer 11

A strategic location, connects Europe, Asia and Africa. So whoever go it would control much of the worlds trade.

Question 12

Crimean war

Answer 12

1845 Black Sea flight to control the Middle East between the Russians and the Ottomans. Russia was defeated.

Question 13

Paternalism

Answer 13

Policy where the Europeans governed weaker countries in a paternal way.