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What imperial nation once held so much territory across the world that it was famously mused the sun never set upon its flag?
Turkey
Germany
Japan
Great Britain
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What country's representatives walked out of the League of Nations in 1933 after their homeland was criticized for its actions in conquering Manchuria?
China
Vietnam
The Philippines
Japan
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What famous act of disobedience in 1857 produced a conflict that resulted in Great Britain taking full imperial control over India the following year?
The One Year War
The Rose-Worthy Rebellion
The Kurdish Uprising
The Sepoy Mutiny
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Which of the following terms was coined by Edward Said to describe the European attitude that eastern civilizations were only made of their most stereotypical elements rather than of diverse peoples and cultures?
Neopalatinism
The Lancaster Attitude
Orientalism
Bourbonism
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Korea's history has been tragically one of continuous conflict as what two neighboring powers consistently have tried to colonize it for centuries?
Mongolia and Nepal
India and Pakistan
China and Japan
Russia and Australia
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Which of the following Pacific island nations is to this day a colonial territory of the United States?
Guam
The Philippines
Malaysia
Tahiti
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What is the name of the philosophical attitude that the United States of America should stretch from coast to coast on the North American continent?
Orientalism
Manifest Destiny
Neopalatinism
Platonic Expression
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From 1881-1914, European nations notably scrambled to establish colonial dominion in what continent?
Africa
Australia
North America
Antarctica
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Josiah Strong famously endorsed the idea of colonialism because of what reason?
The glory of adventure in and of itself
The completion of a world map
The pursuit of wealth
The spread of Christianity
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Emilio Aguinaldo was a rebel leader who rallied his people in an unsuccessful revolution against the United States. What country did Aguinaldo fight for?
Japan
The Philippines
China
Vietnam
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What conference in 1884 finalized each European nation's colonial claims in the African continent?
The Yalta Conference
The Berlin Conference
The Sharpsburg Conference
The Conference of Vienna
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What European country infamously colonized the Congo in the late 1800's and severely abused its inhabitants for monetary gain?
Belgium
France
Germany
Spain
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What infamous Belgian ruler was responsible for the poor treatment of the Congolese in his mass colonization and exploitation of the land?
Leopold II
Rudolph I
Nigel IV
Laurence III
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The Chinese held a philosophical belief that the center of their imperial palace was the center of the world to justify their conquest of the world in the past. What is the name of this belief?
Taoism
Wuwei
Zhindao
Tianxia
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New Imperialism is a term coined to describe the colonization and conquering of nations that started in what recent century?
The 21st Century
The 20th Century
The 19th Century
The 18th Century
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Which of the following philosophies stated it was only natural that stronger nations should colonize weaker ones since that was how the natural order worked?
Stockianism
Social Darwinism
Placettian Theory
Claudianism
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Which of the following lands was never a part of the colony known as French Indochina?
Tonkin
Laos
Japan
Vietnam
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Which of the following nations was originally colonized by Great Britain to serve as a prison?
Australia
New Guinea
Brazil
The Philippines
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Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary from what country who fought against colonial powers in South and Central America?
Peru
Suriname
Chile
Venezuela
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What rather politically incorrect term refers to an infamous philosophy from the past that stated it was the duty of Europe to bring their idea of civilization to the non-Western world?
The Civilization Equivocation Problem
The White Man's Burden
The Subjugation Necessity
The Savage Repression Justification
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The Spanish-American War was fought over control of what Spanish colony in the Americas?
Cuba
Haiti
Hawaii
Saint Lucia
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What political decree stated the United States would fight off European colonization efforts in the Americas?
The Adams Doctrine
The Roosevelt Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine
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One of the causes of the breakout of World War Two was Italy's military subjugation of what African nation?
Zimbabwe
Libya
Ethiopia
Kenya
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What is the name of the piece of American legislation that allowed eventual independence for the Philippines?
The Esparza Act
The Finebridge Act
The Merkaut Act
The Jones Act
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What European country originally colonized the land that is the modern-day state of Florida?
Holland
Great Britain
France
Spain
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As a result of its prior colonization, what is Brazil's primary spoken language in the modern day?
Spanish
Portuguese
English
French
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The Opium Wars were a set of colonial/imperial conflicts that were fought between Great Britain and what other nation?
India
China
The United States of America
The Dominican Republic
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The main reason England and other European powers tried to colonize India was its access to what unique resource?
Aluminum
Oil
Spices
Honey
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What treaty ended the Spanish-American War and granted the U.S.A. temporary colonial control over Cuba?
The Treaty of Greenville
The Treaty of Paris of 1898
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Frankfurt
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The Russo-Japanese War was fought over colonial control of what area?
Siberia
Indonesia
Mongolia
Korea
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Toussaint L'Overture was the famous former-slave hero of an anti-colonial revolution in what modern-day nation?
Australia
Egypt
The Philippines
Haiti
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The Haitian Revolution cast off the colonial rule of what European power?
Austria
Germany
France
Spain
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