Identify the war fought in South Africa between the Dutch settlers & the British and was the first modern total war.
The Franco-Prussian War
The Boer War
The Great War
The French and Indian War
One overwhelming advantage was the Europeans’ technological superiority in weapons such as the ________
Armed cars
Malaria drug
Dynamite
Maxim Gun
Why couldn't the Europeans navigate in to African interior and stayed by the coast?
African diseases
Cataracts & fast-flowing rivers
All the answers are correct
Strong African armies kept pre-industrialization European armies out
The Boers launched ---------------- and used guerrilla tactics against the British.
Commando Raids
Artillery
Chemical weapons
Air forces
Which of the following was an internal factor within African that made it vulnerable to European conquest?
Wars between Britain and USA
Wars between ethnic groups
Wars between Britain and France
Diseases
The Great Trek was undertaken by the ------- to escape the British, but led them into conflict with the Zulu and others
Africans
Boers
Germans
French
In 1884–85, Fourteen European nations met at the Berlin Conference to lay down rules for the division of Africa
False
True
What were the European motives behind colonizing Africa?
Social Darwinism
Source of raw materials and new markets for their goods
All the answers are correct
To expand their empires and sustain national pride
The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country is called -----------------
darwinism
protectionism
imperalialism
marxism
After Britain won the South African War in 1910, The Boer republics were joined in a ______ controlled by the ________
union, Italians
colony, Belgians
self-governing union, British
dominion, French
What discouraged European explorations into the interior of Africa in the early 1800s?
Powerful African armies & hostile natives
Fast-flowing rivers & cataracts
All the answers are correct
African diseases, like Malaria
Europeans believed they were better than other people. The belief that one race is superior to another is called ____
Capitalism
Marxism
Racism
Utilitarianism
South Africa was rich in gold & diamond.
False
True
What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?
Plan missionary expeditions to African interior
Join European forces against the Zulus
Lay the ground rules for division of Africa among European nations
Lay the ground rules for the abolition of slavery in Africa
Which African countries remained free of European control?
Ethiopia & Liberia
Algeria & Chad
Egypt & Nigeria
Uganda & Congo
Europeans and Americans, had initially, learned about Africa through travel books and newspapers.
False
True
During Boer wars, The British burned Boer farms, imprisoning women &children in disease-ridden concentration camps
True
False
How was the Theory of Evolution applied to society through Social Darwinism?
Actions & motives of Europeans should be analyzed carefully
Non-European nations should be granted self-rule
Europeans believed they had the duty & right to impose their cultures
Actions & beliefs of European imperialists should be criticized
What is meant by imperialism?
When a powerful nation seizes control of a poor nation's resources
When a powerful nation sends economic aid to a weaker nation
When powerful nations meet together to form a union
When workers from a poor nation are employed seasonally by a powerful one
What is meant by "Racism"?
The belief that no race is superior to another
The belief that one race is superior to another
The belief that no ethnic background is superior to another
The belief that no religion is superior to another
During the Boer War, many black South Africans were captured by the British and placed in _____, where over 14,000 died,
Farms
Extermination camps
Penal colonies
Concentration camps
The _______ were the first European settlers of South Africa and were known as __________.
Belgian, Zulus
Dutch, Boers
British, Afrikaners
Spanish, Huguenots
As late as 1880, Europeans controlled only 10 percent of the continent’s land, mainly on the coast
True
False
What did the Chokwe devote themselves to do?
Collecting sugar & cocoa beans
Collecting ivory and Beeswax
Hunting
Collecting copper & silver
How did the many linguistic and ethnic groups in Africa contribute to European colonization?
African groups were not united, making them easier to control
Due to industrialization
Due to famine
Africans were united and had strong armies that kept Europeans out
The Zulu chief who used disciplined warriors &military organization to create a large centralized state in S. Africa .
None of the answers is correct
Leopold
Shaka
Cetshwayo
The perfection of the drug quinine in 1829 eventually protected Europeans from becoming infected with the _____ disease.
Spanish Flu
Tubercolosis
Malaria
Black Death
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
The ………lost the Battle of Ulundi and their kingdom to the British
Urobo
Zulus
Igbo
Hausa-Fulani