QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Louis Pasteur - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- discovered that heat could kill bacteria that
otherwise spoiled liquids
Robert Koch - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- discovers if you clean wounds, it will not get
infected
- mild chlorine solution/alcohol will prevent infections
Ignaz Semmelweis - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- makes operation safer by sterilizing tools
to prevent infection
Joseph Lister - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Began using disinfectants and antiseptics
during surgery
Charles Darwin - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅-Evolution by "natural selection" (the weaker
die out) wrote On the Origin of Species
- studied on Galapagos island
Karl Pearson - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- eugenicist
- believed in preventing "lesser stock" from having kids
Galapagos Islands - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Chain of islands near South America
where Darwin developed his theory of natural selection by studying the unique life there.
Jules Ferry - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- French education reformer who promoted
compulsory public education to advance the goals of public order, nationalism, and economic
growth
Rudyard Kipling - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- wrote poem called "white man's burden"
- just a poem full of racism and white superiority
, Opium War - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Chinese attempted to prohibit the opium trade,
British declared war and won against Chinese
- Treaty of Nanjing, agreed to open 5 ports to British trade and limit tariffs on British goods
and gave Hong Kong.
Berlin Conference - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Meeting at which Europeans agreed on
rules for colonizing Africa
Leopold II of Belgium - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- governor of the Congo Free State who
authorized private companies to cruelly force villagers to collect rubber in the forest
the Congo free state - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- large area in Central Africa created and
controlled by Leopold II of Belgium
Alsace-Lorraine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Territory taken by Germany from France as
a rest of the Franco Prussian war
- Was later returned to France as a result of German defeat in WWI
the Balkans - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- "Powder Keg" of Europe.
- Strong sense of nationalism within region.
Three Emperors' League - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Alliance of Germany, Austria-
Hungary and Russia's emperors formed 1873
- Formed by Otto-von Bismarck to deal with Germany's threat of encirclement.
Three Emperor's Alliance - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Created by Bismarck, made up of
Germany, Austria, and Russia.
- In 1879, Austria and Russia begin to clash which breaks up this alliance.
Dual Alliance - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Bismarck's (Germany's) secret treaty with
Austria which provided for support if attacked by Russia.