True or false
1. Like the VOC “men-on-the-spot” in Java, the British relied heavily on Indian troops recruited throughout the sub- continent to help them maintain order in their India colony.
2. The price of German support for the ‘Young Turks” gaining autonomy in local government, was the allowance for a German railway to be built across Mesopotamia and for German interference in dealing with Turkey’s old “friends.”
3. Representative of economic imperialism, the profits from the precious metals and minerals extracted from Africa’s mines or the rubber grown in Malaya went mainly to European merchants and industrialists.
4. The basic goal of pan-Slavism was to unite all Slavs in the Balkans and in Russia under the political leadership of the tsar, thus making the Balkans territorially a part of Russia.
5. Belgian rule in the Congo was based on the “colonial trinity” of state, missionary, and private interests—commercial interests that sent large amounts of capital into the Congo causing its various regions to become specialized.