Imperialism Word Search
This imperialism word search holds forty words from the age of empires, roughly 1870 to 1914: the Scramble for Africa, the British Raj in India, the Opium War in China, the Suez Canal, and the people who fought back, from the Zulu to Ethiopia.
In 1884 and 1885 European powers met in Berlin to set rules for claiming Africa, and no African ruler was invited. By 1914 only Ethiopia and Liberia were still independent. Industrial countries wanted rubber, cotton, copper and new markets for their factories, and new tools made conquest possible: the steamship, the telegraph, the Maxim Gun, and quinine, which protected Europeans against malaria.
In the Congo Free State, the private colony of King Leopold II of Belgium, workers who failed to bring in enough rubber were beaten and maimed, and the outcry forced Belgium to take the colony from him in 1908. Ethiopia's emperor Menelik II defeated an Italian army at Adwa in 1896, a victory that kept his country free. Japan avoided being colonized by modernizing fast after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, and soon became an empire itself.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
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- Adwa
- Annex
- Berlin
- Boxer
- Colony
- Congo
- Empire
- Ethiopia
- Hawaii
- Hong Kong
- Imperialism
- Ivory
- Kipling
- Leopold
- Livingstone
- Maxim Gun
- Meiji
- Menelik
- Missionary
- Nationalism
- Open Door
- Opium War
- Panama
- Partition
- Plantation
- Protectorate
- Quinine
- Raj
- Resistance
- Rhodes
- Rubber
- Scramble
- Sepoy
- Sphere
- Steamship
- Suez Canal
- Telegraph
- Treaty Port
- Viceroy
- Zulu