What types of resistance did native peoples employ against these growing empires? How successful were these acts of resistance?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Resistance against growing empires
1. guns and military were too strong against many native peoples
a. British gunships blasted the Southeast Asian kingdom of Burma out
of existence in 1885
b. Battle of Omdurman, where the British mowed down the previously
invincible forces of a Sudanese leader
2. disease could still defeat white armies in tropical climates
a. during the Spanish-American War in Cuba three times as many
Americans fell to yellow fever as to enemy action
b. it took France 13 years of brutal warfare to conquer Vietnam
3. underequipped native defenders on colonial frontiers could prolong the wars
with guerrilla tactics
4. successful native resistance in conventional warfare
a. Maori wars in New Zealand
b. Ethiopia
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