APWH Quiz Period 6: Imperialism in Africa and India

Which of the following gave Europeans an advantage in their encounters with people in Asia, Africa, and Oceania during the second half of the nineteenth century?

• The rich supply of gold and diamonds in European countries
• The unity and consensus among all the European states
• European immunity to all the world's major diseases
• European superiority in military organization and discipline

Which of the following was a European colonial view that shaped the development of African identity in the nineteenth century?

• The theory that humanity originated in Africa
• The notion of an Africa divided into tribes
• The belief in racial equality
• The idea of a pan-African identity

How were the colonial takeovers of India and Indonesia during the long nineteenth century similar?

• Both were conquered by Britain.
• Both were conquered by the Dutch.
• In both, colonial conquest grew out of earlier interaction with European trading firms.
• In both, colonial conquest was abrupt, deliberate, violent, and completed within 25 years.

Which of the following is an example of resistance to colonial rule in the nineteenth century?

• System of apartheid
• Scientific racism
• The Indian Rebellion
• The Taiping Rebellion

Production, often on a large scale, for sale in the market rather than for consumption by the farmers themselves.

• cash-crop agriculture
• cultivation system
• Plantation system
• communist system

European rule of this state from 1865 to 1909 is typically held up as the worst abuse of Europe's second wave of colonization, resulting as it did in millions of deaths; the ruler at the time was king of Belgium.

• Congo Free State/Leopold II
• Republic of Congo/Leopold II
• Congo Free State/Charles II
• Republic of Congo/Leopold Senghor

Emerged in the nineteenth century and increasingly used the prestige and apparatus of science to support European racial prejudices and preferences.

• European racism
• superior racism
• Segregation
• New Slavery

Name used for the process of the European countries' partition of this continent among themselves in the period 1875–1900.

• scramble for Africa
• Imperialism
• United Nations
• Division of Colonies

Leading religious figure of nineteenth-century India (1863–1902); advocate of a revived Hinduism and its mission to reach out to the spiritually impoverished West.

• Swami Vivekananda
• Buddha
• Vieshna
• Akbar