Age of Empire

1. ______ ______ Cixi was the last true ruler of the Qing dynasty thanks to the chaos of the Century of Humiliation.
3. Germany was born when Bismarck tricked Napoleon III into fighting this war.
8. 1800s Europe spread across the world and developed massive colonial empires thanks to this policy.
10. Italy tried to invade this ancient African country, which managed to shockingly repel them, and remain the only free native empire of Africa.
11. The _____ Expedition opened up Japan to the rest of the world.
13. This man was the most famous of the Libertadores, freeing several countries, one of which is named after him.
14. Napoleon III showed early signs of his stupidity by invading the American country when the US was preoccupied with the Civil War.
15. These were the liberators of Latin America in the early 1800s.

2. An Asian empire defeated a European power in a shockingly swift war in 1905, destroying two fleets.
4. The _____ Wars started over this powerful narcotic the British would force the Chinese to legalize.
5. The ______ Rebellion saw a Chinese man claim he was Jesus's half-brother, and kill 20-30 million people.
6. The "seperateness" that persecuted black South Africans was called _______.
7. The ______ Affair almost tore France apart over whether an innocent man should be counted and punished as a traitor because he was Jewish.
9. The ____ Restoration, named for the word "enlightened" that became the Emperor's name, ended the Shogunate and made Japan an industrial empire.
12. The Scramble for ______ saw Europe conquer almost this entire continent with industry and the machine gun.
13. The ______ Rebellion saw Chinese Kung Fu secret societies try to throw out European and Japanese influence on China. It failed.