New Imperialism
Across
- 3. Chinese territory that it was forced to give to the United Kingdom
- 5. Emperor of Ethiopia 1889-1913 who successfully fought off European colonization
- 8. Colonial competition between the British & Russian Empire in the 19th centuries over control of Central Asia, with a particular importance placed on Afghanistan
- 11. name of the British company that conquered India and had at it's height an army of about 260,000
- 12. Dynasty that ruled China throughout the 19th century
- 14. the name of a rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan in the middle of the 19th century that cost tens of millions of lives
- 15. first president of the Republic of China in 1912
- 16. the name of a rebellion by anti-foreign radicals in 1899-1901
Down
- 1. a city in which an 1884-1885 conference among European powers determined how Africa would be colonized
- 2. the idea of survival of the fittest applied to peoples, races, and societies
- 4. a famous explorer and missionary into Africa
- 6. name of the only city in which Europeans could trade with China until the middle of the 19th century
- 7. name of a native Indian soldier fighting for the British
- 9. Empress dowager who held power through the last half of the 19th century in China and opposed reform
- 10. Islamic revivalist movement that sought to restore Islam to the strict rules adhered to by Muhammad
- 12. name of the hairstyle forced on Han Chinese by the Qing Dynasty as a sign of submission
- 13. important drug who sale to China sparked a series of wars