Blog

According to the video, all of the following are true of Cook’s map of New Zealand EXCEPT:

In sixteen years of marriage, James Cook and his wife spent a total of just four years together.

Within a hundred years of European colonization in Africa, African people began organizing and resisting.

The only two countries to remain uncolonized by European powers during the Scramble for Africa were                  1                   and                           2                         . (Spelling and capitalization count. Only enter the names of the country, properly spelled, with the first letter capitalized. Do not add any additional words or punctuation.)   [1] [2]  

After 1880, Angola was ruled by

King Leopold of Belgium was most interested in gaining rubber from Congo and he treated the Congolese people brutally in order to obtain it.

King Alfonso wrote to the king of Portugal asking him to stop the slave trade out of Africa because slavery was not compatible with European values.

When Kimpa Vita was told to sit on the floor by a Portuguese official, she commanded one of her attendants to kneel down and she sat on him instead.

Nicholas’s reaction to his father’s death and his own ascension to the throne was one of despair and a feeling that he was unprepared to rule.

Nicholas’s great uncle suffered gruesome wounds from a bomb, creating in Nicholas a lifelong fear of assassination.