New Imperialism

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