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Card 6

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Other than developments in trade, how else was the British government &public interests in Africa stimulated?

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Card 7

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Name the 2 geographical areas in which the British already had strategic interests?

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Card 8

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Why did Christian missionaries believe they had moral duty in Africa?

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Card 9

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Name the missionary who went to Africa in order to ‘open up a path for commerce and Christianity?

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Card 10

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What other resources were discovered in Africa which had been unknown to Europeans?

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Card 11

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As a way of expansion before the 1890s, the British created chartered companies to trade in new areas; name two.

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Card 12

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Why did the American Civil War revived Britain’s interest in Egypt?

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Card 13

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What major engineering project did Egyptian leader Isma’il Pasha oversee?

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Card 14

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List 2 reasons why this canal become of major significance to European empires like Britain and France?

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Card 15

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In what year did Pasha seek a buyer for his country’s share in the canal, who bought it and how much did they pay?

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