European Imperialism Crossword

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  1. 3. The idea of looking down on others as if they are less able or are similar to children.
  2. 4. A gathering in 1884 where Europeans met to discuss Leopold's rights to Congo but declared that European powers can’t claim Africa without having had set a gov office there.
  3. 9. Racial segregation system set up after the Boer War
  4. 11. Patriotism, pride, and loyalty to a nation.
  5. 12. An area where an outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges.
  6. 16. An explorer who was sent out to map the Nile and the Congo Rivers.
  7. 17. A poem made by Rudyard Kipling referencing the duty that missionaries, doctors, and colonial officials believed in spreading which is the blessing of Western civilization such as medicine, law, and religion.
  8. 20. They lived in the eastern mountains of the empire and had tension with the Turks, as they were accused of supporting Russian plans against the Ottoman Empire. This led to genocide and over a million Armenian casualties in the span of 25 years.
  9. 21. Leopold’s conquest with Belgium for Africa arose competition with other European nations, including Britain, France, and Germany, who all sought the territory.
  10. 22. Sending officials from the nation of power to directly govern a colony
  11. 25. A reason for imperialism through the need to have military bases around the world to protect trading ships, conquer territories to stop French expansion, and to want a global empire for recognition of a nation's prestige.
Down
  1. 1. Allowing local rulers within the colony to govern, who experienced governing in the way of the nation in power
  2. 2. An Ethiopian leader who resisted the European takeover and modernized his people with weapons to protect themselves
  3. 3. Local rulers that are allowed to rule but forced to govern under the guidance of the nation in power
  4. 5. Built schools, medical clinics, and churches, and sought out to win people to Christianity, although sometimes while degrading other religions and cultures.
  5. 6. A reason for imperialism through missionaries, colonial officials, and doctors believing the necessity to spread the blessings of Western civilization such as law, medicine, and religion.
  6. 7. An idea that emerged based on Charles Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest, arguing that Europeans are superior to all others, validating the destruction of other cultures and justifying it as “nature’s way of improving the world.”
  7. 8. A popular explorer-missionary who travelled throughout Africa and wrote on his findings and emphasized ending the slave trade.
  8. 10. A war that resulted with the Dutch losing South African territory after the British defeated them
  9. 13. The idea of supremacy of one ethnic group or culture over another
  10. 14. A nation consisting of settled and freed U.S. slaves and a nation that hadn’t been conquered by the Europeans
  11. 15. A purposeful attempt to demolish an entire religious or ethnic group.
  12. 18. A partial or complete supremacy of one country's political, economic, or cultural matters over another country or region.
  13. 19. A French entrepreneur who got a company to construct the Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, a 100-mile waterway linking the Red and Mediterranean Seas.
  14. 23. Politically controlled territories within powerful nations
  15. 24. The leader in Belgium's conquest in the Congo. A ruthless leader who stole the riches of the Congo including rubber, copper, and ivory. He told his people to brutally enslave and torture the Africans.
  16. 26. He strengthened tax collection, reorganized landholding, improved farming methods, and expanded cotton production.