Chapter 25 Quiz

A  elite, innovative infantry units.

B  a slave army of Armenians.

C  Shi’a converts.

D  a corrupt and privileged hereditary elite.

A  They became highly Christianized.

B  They violently resisted European colonization.

C  They adapted to British rule and ran their colonial state through elected offices.

D  Their tribal officials agreed to build hundreds of miles of railroads.

A  Fewer women married.

B  The trans-Saharan trade doubled.

C  Slavery was abolished in the region.

D  A written constitution was established.

A  Morocco

B  Ethiopia

C  Sudan

D  Senegal

A  Slaves

B  Ivory

C  Rubber

D  Diamonds

A  Ottoman janissaries

B  The British East India Company

C  Muhammad Ali’s army

D  A French company

A  Syria

B  Iran

C  Iraq

D  Algeria

A  His micromanagement of Belgium’s empire

B  His playboy lifestyle

C  The lengths he would go to acquire ivory

D  The exploitation of Africans in the Congo

A  The Dutch

B  Sudanese Muslims

C  The Belgians

D  The British

A  They displayed measured indifference.

B  They generally deemed it unwise to resist.

C  They immediately began diplomatic negotiations.

D  They raised violent opposition.

A  They were fearful of the economic and political consequences of such a move.

B  They did not see slavery as a significant issue.

C  They had no moral qualms about slavery.

D  They worried about the impact of such a move on public opinion in Europe.

A  He was a Zulu leader who revolutionized African warfare and created the largest and most powerful African society in southern Africa in the nineteenth century.

B  He was the leader of Ethiopia’s resistance to Italian imperialism and was successful in achieving independence for Ethiopia.

C  He was the leader of a protest against working conditions at the DeBeers’ diamond mines who spread knowledge of the atrocities there throughout Europe.

D  He was the British-appointed ruler of the Cape Colony who worked to impose and enforce British policies in Africa.

A  Its lead in industrial domination was declining.

B  Its soaring population had created a massive shortage of jobs at home.

C  It had developed no new colonies since the loss of its North American colonies.

D  It wanted to civilize the Africans more than it did the Indians.

A  Coffee and cotton

B  Wheat and barley

C  Tropical products

D  Gold and silver

A  To develop markets for industrial goods in the European colonies

B  To develop new settlements to be populated by working-class Europeans

C  To connect Africa to world markets in a way that would be profitable for the Europeans

D  To encourage sustainable indigenous industrial development

A  He borrowed money from Russia.

B  He built large cotton mills.

C  He reopened the slave markets.

D  He developed commercial agriculture.

A  Abdul Assar

B  Muhammad Ali

C  Ataturk

D  Abbas II