Deck 19: D: Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania 1750-1950

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Massive uprising of much of India against British rule;also called the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoy Mutiny because it first broke out among Indian troops in British employ.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Answer 1

Indian Rebellion,1857-1858

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Process that occurred in non-Muslim Africa;many converts continued using protective charms and medicines and consulting local medicine men,and many continued to believe in their old gods and spirits.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Answer 2

Africanization of Christianity

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The main beneficiaries in Asian and African lands colonized by Western powers;schooled in the imperial power's language and practices,they moved into their country's professional classes but ultimately led anticolonial movements as they grew discouraged by their inability to win equal status with the colonizers.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Answer 3

Western-educated elite

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A member of the Gikuyu people of East Africa (1910-?),she witnessed almost the entire twentieth century experiencing British colonialism,the coming of Christianity,the Mau Mau rebellion,the independence of Kenya in 1963,and the challenges of modernization that followed.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Prominent West African scholar and political leader (1832-1912)who argued that each civilization,including that of Africa,has its own unique contribution to make to the world.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Production,often on a large scale,for sale in the market rather than for consumption by the farmers themselves.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Name used for the process of the European countries' partition of this continent among themselves in the period 1875-1900.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Emerged in the nineteenth century and increasingly used the prestige and apparatus of science to support European racial prejudices and preferences.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
European rule of this state from 1865 to 1909 is typically held up as the worst abuse of Europe's second wave of colonization,resulting as it did in millions of deaths;the ruler at the time was king of Belgium.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
System of forced labor used in the Netherlands East Indies in the nineteenth century;peasants were required to cultivate at least 20 percent of their land in cash crops,such as sugar or coffee,for sale at low and fixed prices to government contractors,who then earned enormous profits from further sale of the crops.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Leading religious figure of nineteenth-century India (1863-1902);advocate of a revived Hinduism and its mission to reach out to the spiritually impoverished West.

A)European racism
B)scramble for Africa
C)Indian Rebellion,1857-1858
D)Congo Free State/Leopold II
E)cultivation system
F)cash-crop agriculture
G)Wanjiku
H)Western-educated elite
I)Africanization of Christianity
J)Swami Vivekananda
K)Edward Blyden