Chapters 12-13 Review

Match the following

• protectorate

• colony administered by local rulers with European advisors

• Guang Xu

• Indian tradition of isolating women in separate quarters

• Ram Mohun Roy

• promoted Indian culture pride and is often called the founder of Indian nationalism

• purdah

• emperor who launched the Hundred Days of Reform in China

• trade surplus

• economic situation that occurs when a nation exports more that it imports

Match the following

• Sun Yixian

• leader of the powerful Zulu kingdom in the early 1800s

• trade deficit

• economic situation that occurs when a nation imports more than it exports

• Usman dan Fodio

• the difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports

• balance of trade

• president of the new Chinese republic after the fall of the Qing dynasty

• Shaka

• leader who sparked an Islamic revival across West Africa in the early 1800s

Match the following

• Benito Juarez

• ruler of Hawaiian Islands who was overthrown by planters from the US

• Liliuokalani

• self-governing nation

• Maori

• indigenous people of New Zealand

• dominion

• helped open an era of liberal reform in Mexico known as La Reforma

• Diet

• Japanese legislature

Match the following

• caudillos

• people of mixed Native American and French-Canadian descent

• Australia

• powerful Japanese business families who ruled over industrial empires

• metis

• set Siam on the road to modernization

• zaibatsu

• strong local leaders in Latin America who challenged central governments

• Mongkut

• British penal colony during the 1700s

Which of the following was a Social Darwinist argument in favor of Western imperialism?

• colonies would bring wealth and prestige to the home country

• Western nations needed outlets for their growing populations

• Westerners thought they had a duty to bring their civilization to inferior races

• Increased trade would benefit all peoples

What colony did the British help create for freed slaves in West Africa in 1787?

• Nigeria

• Gold Coast

• Liberia

• Sierra Leone

David Livingstone believed that opening the interior of Africa to Christianity and trade would

• end slave trade

• reduce African resistance to European imperialism

• rob Africans of their culture and traditions

• spark revolts across Africa

Ethiopia was able to remain independent because

• Europeans could not reach its remote location

• Europeans agreed to its independence at the Conference of Berlin

• Ethiopia modernized and imported European weapons

• Ethiopia agreed to accept Christianity as its state religion

As the Ottoman empire crumbled, Russia plotted to seize the Bosporus and Dardanelles in order to

• build a Berlin-to-Baghdad railway

• gain access to the Mediterranean Sea

• build a canal through Egypt

• gain control of the Red Sea

The interest of Europeans in Iran intensified with what discovery in the region?

• gold

• oil

• diamonds

• copper