🌍ap world history: modern review

Ashanti resistance

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Armed opposition by the Ashanti Empire against British colonial encroachment in West Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including attacks on colonial communication infrastructure.

AP course connection

Topic 6.3: 6.3 Indigenous Responses to Imperialism

Unit 6

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