Across
- 3. British Controlled "M"
- 5. claimed as the exclusive investment or trading realm of a foreign power
- 6. became the most important power in India
- 13. became a territory of the United States in 1898
- 16. local rulers had power over day to day matters
- 17. take possession of
- 18. successfully resisted Italy
- 19. Indian empire in the 1700s
- 20. connected the Mediterranean to the Red Sea
Down
- 1. broke away from the Ottoman empire in Egypt
- 2. Dutch settlers
- 4. controlled by a private business rather than by a foreign government
- 6. British Controlled "B"
- 7. beginning in the 1880s gold and diamonds are discovered in Africa, leading to European interest in the continent
- 8. British controlled "S"
- 9. the Dutch ran this country
- 10. European powers governed directly, not allowing African control
- 11. fought against the French for almost 50 years
- 12. allowed its own goernment but was under the control of a foreign power
- 14. America fought them over Cuba/Guam/Philippines
- 15. governed by a foreign power
- 21. people led by chief Shaka