British Empire A-Z #2

Can you name these notable places, people, and events related to the long and storied history of the British Empire?

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Indian city and site of a massacre in 1919

Amritsar

Mutineers from this ship settled on Pitcairn Island

HMS Bounty

Yorkshire-born explorer of the South Pacific

James Cook

The 'second city' of the empire

Dublin

Event held at the Crystal Palace in 1851

Great Exhibition

What the Hudson's Bay Company traded

Furs

Period of British-Russian rivalry centred on Afghanistan

The Great Game

Became Belize on independence

British Honduras

Battle in which the Zulus defeated the British

Battle of Isandlwana

Island taken from the Spanish in 1655

Jamaica

Area of Hong Kong that was home to the Walled City

Kowloon

Dr. ________, I presume?

Livingstone

Term for the journey millions of slaves took across the Atlantic

Middle Passage

'New Scotland'

Nova Scotia

Conflicts that resulted in the acquisition of Hong Kong

Opium Wars

Powhatan woman who died in Gravesend

Pocahontas

Persian Gulf protectorate

Qatar

'Lost Colony' mysteriously abandoned in the 16th century

Roanoke

Colony settled by London's 'Black Poor'

Sierra Leone

Term for the exiling of criminals to Australia

Transportation

Region 'planted' by English and Scots in the 17th century

Ulster

Empress of India

Victoria

Leader of the abolition movement

William Wilberforce

Term for British rule in the Ionian Islands; Greek for 'rule by foreigners'

Xenocracy

Canadian territory created in 1898

Yukon

Movement supported by the 1917 Balfour Declaration

Zionism

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