British Empire that begins with the letter B

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Two wars fought against Dutch colonists in southern Africa

Organization created by parliament to oversee East India Company

A Caribbean island nation that won independence from Britain in 1973

A botanist who first advocated British colonization of Australia in the late 18th century

A promise by the UK foreign secretary to support the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine in exchange for their support in WWI

Famine during WWII that killed over 2 million people caused by the British war effort driving up prices of grain

A socialist English woman who advocated for the independence of Ireland and India; she joined the Indian National Congress and was even arrested in 1917 for her anti-colonial activities

English colonist who claimed to make a treaty with Kulin nation to obtain land that became city of Melbourne, Australia. The treaty is now considered to be fake.

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Class of English-educated Bengali elites that emerged under British rule

Colony founded in western Canada in 1855

First prime minister of independent Jamaica in 1962

A confederacy of 3 related first nation groups in western central Canada and the U.S. They managed to stay out of most military conflicts but suffered greatly from white settlers killing off the buffalo

Claimed by the British during the Berlin Conference because it helped connect their southern African colonies. They obtained independence in 1964

The first evangelical missionaries came from England to India in 1793 and were from this congregation

An unequal treaty Siam signed with the British in 1855 allowing tax free trade in Siam