Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 75

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
-Sokoto caliphate

• A)A West African tropical product often used to make soap; the British encouraged its cultivation as an alternative to the slave trade.
• B)Religious war waged by Muslim scholars and religious leaders against both animist rulers and Islamic states that they deemed corrupt.
• C)Founded in 1809 by Uthman dan Fodio, this African state was based on Islamic history and law.
• D)A meeting of European leaders held in 1884-1885 to lay down basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa.
• E)An autonomous state or territory partly controlled and protected by a stronger outside power.
• F)Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa.
• G)The late-nineteenth-century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad.
• H)An agent that proved effective in controlling attacks of malaria, which had previously decimated Europeans in the tropics.
• I)The idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living.
• J)A set of radical reforms designed to remake the Ottoman Empire on a western European model.
• K)Fervent patriots who seized power in the revolution of 1908, forcing the conservative sultan to implement reforms; they helped pave the way for the birth of modern secular Turkey.
• L)The mass movement of people from Europe in the nineteenth century; one reason that the West's impact on the world was so powerful and complex.
• M)The movement of peoples in which one strong individual blazes the way and others follow.
• N)Discriminatory laws built by Americans and Australians to keep Asians from settling in their countries in the 1880s.

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Definitions:

National Boundaries

Geographically defined borders that separate the territory of one nation-state from another.

Developing Countries

Nations with lower living standards, underdeveloped industrial bases, and low Human Development Index relative to other countries.

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The maximum output an economy can produce without increasing inflation, considering available resources, technology, and workforce skills.

Global South

A term used to describe countries typically situated in the Southern Hemisphere, often associated with lower economic development and historical colonization impacts.