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

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

C  They became highly Christianized.

D  They violently resisted European colonization.

A  A written constitution was established.

B  Fewer women married.

C  The trans-Saharan trade doubled.

D  Slavery was abolished in the region.

A  Ethiopia

B  Sudan

C  Morocco

D  Senegal

A  Diamonds

B  Slaves

C  Ivory

D  Rubber

A  Muhammad Ali’s army

B  The British East India Company

C  Ottoman janissaries

D  A French company

A  Iraq

B  Syria

C  Algeria

D  Iran

A  His micromanagement of Belgium’s empire

B  The exploitation of Africans in the Congo

C  The lengths he would go to acquire ivory

D  His playboy lifestyle

A  Sudanese Muslims

B  The British

C  The Belgians

D  The Dutch

A  They generally deemed it unwise to resist.

B  They displayed measured indifference.

C  They raised violent opposition.

D  They immediately began diplomatic negotiations.

A  They had no moral qualms about slavery.

B  They did not see slavery as a significant issue.

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

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

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

B  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.

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

A  Its lead in industrial domination was declining.

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

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

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

A  Coffee and cotton

B  Wheat and barley

C  Tropical products

D  Gold and silver

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

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

C  To encourage sustainable indigenous industrial development

D  To develop markets for industrial goods in the European colonies

A  He developed commercial agriculture.

B  He built large cotton mills.

C  He borrowed money from Russia.

D  He reopened the slave markets.

A  Abdul Assar

B  Muhammad Ali

C  Abbas II

D  Ataturk