Chaper 27 history
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- Congo region
- Territory that King Leopald II of belgium conquered
- Menelik II
- Eutopia's emperor
- Tripoli
- country where Italy defeated the Ottomans turks and named it Libya
- David Livingstone
- first went to Africa but Europeans lost touch with him.
- Cape of Good Hope
- before the Suez canal, the quickest sea route to Asia fom Europe was around this cape
- King Charles X of France
- made an invasion in Algiers, knowing his going to colonize it
- Imperialist European Country's
- Belgium, germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Rusia, France and Great Brittain
- Protectorate
- had its own government, but its polocies were guided the motherland
- Great trek
- the move were the afrikaner immigrated north east into interior
- Reasons of Imperialism
- European nations wanted to built empires in their competitive quest for power; The IR created a large demand for raw materials and expanded market; Religion and feelings of racial superiority inspired Europeans to impose their cultures on distant lands
- Cape colony
- the land that afrikaners conquered around the port of Cape Town
- Abd al-Qadir
- leader of the Algerians
- Transvaal and Orange Free State
- the two colonies the afrikaners established
- Sphere of influence
- Motherland had exclusive investments or trading rights
- Imperialism
- country's domination of the political, economical, and social life of an other country. (1800 to 1914)
- Ethopia
- Onlu country remaining independant in East Afrika
- Algeria
- where the French went and started farms and estates
- Cecil Rhodes
- Made a fortune from gold and diamond mining in South Africa, Named a colony after his name (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe)
- Boers
- Famers
- Tripoli
- Today called Libya
- Colony
- territory that was totally ruled by motherland
- quinine
- Ingedrient to fight Malaria
- partition
- divide
- Liberia
- only independant state in West Afrika by 1900
- Samory Toure
- West african ruler, led armies against the french
- Cecil Rhodes
- The PM of Cape Colony
- Social Darwinism
- fake scientific prove of the Europeans cultural superiority. Theory adapted Darwin's idea about the evolution of animals (his idea of "the survival of the fittest")
- Suez Canal
- conects Mediterranean see and the red sea, Shortcut between Europe and India