Gr10 Imperialism - Scramble for Africa | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

Lay the ground rules for division of Africa among European nations

Lay the ground rules for the abolition of slavery in Africa

Plan missionary expeditions to African interior

Join European forces against the Zulus

How was the Theory of Evolution applied to society through Social Darwinism?

Europeans believed they had the duty & right to impose their cultures

Non-European nations should be granted self-rule

Actions & beliefs of European imperialists should be criticized

Actions & motives of Europeans should be analyzed carefully

Why couldn't the Europeans navigate in to African interior and stayed by the coast?

All the answers are correct

African diseases

Strong African armies kept pre-industrialization European armies out

Cataracts & fast-flowing rivers

What were the European motives behind colonizing Africa?

All the answers are correct

Source of raw materials and new markets for their goods

Social Darwinism

To expand their empires and sustain national pride

The Zulu chief who used disciplined warriors &military organization to create a large centralized state in S. Africa .

Shaka

Cetshwayo

Leopold

None of the answers is correct

What is meant by imperialism?

When a powerful nation seizes control of a poor nation's resources

When workers from a poor nation are employed seasonally by a powerful one

When powerful nations meet together to form a union

When a powerful nation sends economic aid to a weaker nation

Which African countries remained free of European control?

Ethiopia & Liberia

Algeria & Chad

Uganda & Congo

Egypt & Nigeria

The _______ were the first European settlers of South Africa and were known as __________.

Dutch, Boers

Spanish, Huguenots

Belgian, Zulus

British, Afrikaners

South Africa was rich in gold & diamond.

True

False

After Britain won the South African War in 1910, The Boer republics were joined in a ______ controlled by the ________

self-governing union, British

dominion, French

colony, Belgians

union, Italians

How did the many linguistic and ethnic groups in Africa contribute to European colonization?

African groups were not united, making them easier to control

Africans were united and had strong armies that kept Europeans out

Due to industrialization

Due to famine

Europeans and Americans, had initially, learned about Africa through travel books and newspapers.

True

False

What did King Leopold claim was his primary motive in establishing a colony in Congo?

Abolishing slave trade & promoting Christianity

Getting into the mines of gold & silver

Getting African workers for factories in Belgium

Curing Africans from diseases

What discouraged European explorations into the interior of Africa in the early 1800s?

All the answers are correct

Powerful African armies & hostile natives

Fast-flowing rivers & cataracts

African diseases, like Malaria

The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country is called -----------------

imperalialism

darwinism

marxism

protectionism

As late as 1880, Europeans controlled only 10 percent of the continent’s land, mainly on the coast

True

False

The Boers launched ---------------- and used guerrilla tactics against the British.

Commando Raids

Air forces

Chemical weapons

Artillery

In 1884–85, Fourteen European nations met at the Berlin Conference to lay down rules for the division of Africa

True

False

What did the Chokwe devote themselves to do?

Collecting ivory and Beeswax

Collecting copper & silver

Collecting sugar & cocoa beans

Hunting

During Boer wars, The British burned Boer farms, imprisoning women &children in disease-ridden concentration camps

True

False

The ………lost the Battle of Ulundi and their kingdom to the British

Zulus

Igbo

Hausa-Fulani

Urobo

Identify the war fought in South Africa between the Dutch settlers & the British and was the first modern total war.

The Boer War

The Great War

The French and Indian War

The Franco-Prussian War

Europeans believed they were better than other people. The belief that one race is superior to another is called ____

Racism

Utilitarianism

Capitalism

Marxism

The perfection of the drug quinine in 1829 eventually protected Europeans from becoming infected with the _____ disease.

Malaria

Tubercolosis

Spanish Flu

Black Death

Which of the following was an internal factor within African that made it vulnerable to European conquest?

Wars between ethnic groups

Wars between Britain and France

Wars between Britain and USA

Diseases

During the Boer War, many black South Africans were captured by the British and placed in _____, where over 14,000 died,

Concentration camps

Penal colonies

Farms

Extermination camps

One overwhelming advantage was the Europeans’ technological superiority in weapons such as the ________

Maxim Gun

Armed cars

Dynamite

Malaria drug

The Great Trek was undertaken by the ------- to escape the British, but led them into conflict with the Zulu and others

Boers

Africans

French

Germans

What is meant by "Racism"?

The belief that one race is superior to another

The belief that no race is superior to another

The belief that no religion is superior to another

The belief that no ethnic background is superior to another