Chapter 25 Quiz

A  a slave army of Armenians.

B  a corrupt and privileged hereditary elite.

C  Shi’a converts.

D  elite, innovative infantry units.

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

B  They violently resisted European colonization.

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

D  They became highly Christianized.

A  Slavery was abolished in the region.

B  A written constitution was established.

C  The trans-Saharan trade doubled.

D  Fewer women married.

A  Morocco

B  Senegal

C  Sudan

D  Ethiopia

A  Ivory

B  Rubber

C  Slaves

D  Diamonds

A  Muhammad Ali’s army

B  Ottoman janissaries

C  A French company

D  The British East India Company

A  Syria

B  Algeria

C  Iraq

D  Iran

A  The lengths he would go to acquire ivory

B  His micromanagement of Belgium’s empire

C  His playboy lifestyle

D  The exploitation of Africans in the Congo

A  The Dutch

B  Sudanese Muslims

C  The Belgians

D  The British

A  They immediately began diplomatic negotiations.

B  They generally deemed it unwise to resist.

C  They displayed measured indifference.

D  They raised violent opposition.

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

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

C  They did not see slavery as a significant issue.

D  They had no moral qualms about slavery.

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

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

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

D  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.

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  Tropical products

B  Coffee and cotton

C  Wheat and barley

D  Gold and silver

A  To develop markets for industrial goods in the European colonies

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 new settlements to be populated by working-class Europeans

A  He built large cotton mills.

B  He borrowed money from Russia.

C  He developed commercial agriculture.

D  He reopened the slave markets.

A  Abbas II

B  Abdul Assar

C  Muhammad Ali

D  Ataturk