Imperialism in Africa

5. An area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges.
7. Unsuccessful rebellion in 1905-1906 by eastern Africans who sprinkled holy water on themselves and thought their bodies would be impenetrable to German bullets.
8. A country or territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power.
10. World’s first automatic machine gun debuted in 1884.
13. Control in which local governments are used and self-rule is limited.
15. Scottish missionary who traveled to central Africa to promote Christianity.
17. Became emperor of Ethiopia in 1889.
19. Belgian ruler who sought control of the Congo region to abolish slavery and promote Christianity.
21. Type of imperialism in which an independent but less developed country is controlled by private business interests rather than governments.
22. Dutch “farmers”.
24. Zulu chief that organized a large centralized force in southern Africa in the early 19th century.
25. Drug created in 1829 that eventually protected Europeans from malaria.

1. Meeting of European nations in 1884-1885 that set rules for the division of Africa.
2. Europeans used them to navigate deep into the central African rivers to gain control.
3. War correspondent for the British during the Boer War in which he was imprisoned, escaped, and returned to Great Britain a war hero.
4. Theory that those fittest for survival enjoyed the most wealth and success and, therefore, should inhabit as much of the world as possible.
6. Conflict between Dutch colonists and the British in southern Africa over land rights in 1899.
9. The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country.
11. Battle in 1896 between Ethiopians and Italians in which the Ethiopians were victorious. It was the most successful African resistance to European imperialism.
12. Control in which foreign officials are brought in and there is no self-rule.
14. A country or territory governed internally by a foreign power.
16. Along with Liberia, the only African country that was not controlled by a European country by 1914.
17. Disease that was believed to keep many European explorers out of central Africa.
18. Diamond company owner felt that the British were the “first” race in the world and the most superior.
20. First Europeans to settle in Africa.
23. Country that controlled most of the Congo River nation by 1880.
24. American reporter sent to find Dr. Livingstone after he was presumed dead.