Imperialism

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Across
  1. 4. From the documentary "Empire": What beverage did the British want to export from China?
  2. 5. These Indian troops rose up against British rule of India in 1857-1858
  3. 7. The western name for the organization called the Righteous and Harmonious Fists which led a rebellion against westerners, missionaries, and Chinese Christian converts from 1898-1900.
  4. 10. From the documentary "Empire": What was Jamaica's cash crop?
  5. 11. Now known as Taiwan, the Japanese won this after the Sino-Japanese War
  6. 14. (2 words) One of the most important waterways in northern Africa in the late 1800s.
  7. 16. The first Europeans to trade with China
  8. 18. (2 words) The British won this island after the Opium Wars, but returned it to China in 1997
  9. 20. British colony in Africa named after its founder, Cecil Rhodes. It's now called Zimbabwe
  10. 21. The restoration under this emperor resulted in the rapid modernization of Japan
  11. 22. President Theodore Roosevelt brokered a peace treaty between this country and Japan in 1905
  12. 23. The British banned this practice in India
  13. 24. (2 words)In the aftermath of this conflict, the British created the Union of South Africa out of colonies established by the Dutch
  14. 25. This newly-formed European country controlled the third largest empire in Africa by 1900, only thirty years after its creation.
  15. 27. Under pressure from Russia, France, and Germany, Japan returned this peninsula to China after the Sino-Japanese War
Down
  1. 1. The number of these food shortages in India were reduced dramatically during Britain's control
  2. 2. This king of Belgium oversaw Belgian rule of the Congo, which was notoriously cruel even by European standards
  3. 3. An "incident," or crisis, over this Sudanese city, almost resulted in a war between Britain and France
  4. 4. The British banned this practice in India
  5. 6. One of the two republics in Africa founded by the Dutch
  6. 8. The policy where westerners charged with a crime in China would only be tried in western courts of law.
  7. 9. Now known as Guangzhou, Europeans were limited to trading in China in this city.
  8. 12. Members of a sizable religious group in India; split away from India in 1947 to form Pakistan
  9. 13. (2 words) Sharing the name of the late "Friends" star, this American naval officer opened Japan to trade with the United States in 1854
  10. 15. The dowager empress of China from 1861-1908
  11. 17. This shogunate expelled all Europeans, except the Dutch, from Japan in the 1600s
  12. 19. Acting as the largest drug cartel in history, the British forced the Chinese to trade by flooding China with this drug
  13. 26. The majority religion of India during British colonial rule