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