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22 Cards in this Set
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Mataram
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A kingdom in Java
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Sepoys
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Indian troops that the British relied heavily upon during their intervention into India
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British Raj
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The Sanskrit-derived name for the British political establishment in India
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Plassey
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A key battle in 1757 in which the fewer than 3000 British troops and sepoys defeated an Indian army of nearly 50,000
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Robert Clive
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The British representative of of the East India Company and architect of British victory in south India
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Presidencies
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Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay were the three presidencies that made up the territory British ruled in India
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Princely States
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The land still controlled by the princes of India
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Nabobs
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Officials of the British East India Company that cheated the company and exploiting the Indian peasants and artisans to make great fortunes
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Lord Charles Cornwallis
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Made policies more established in the new colonies
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Isandhlwana
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Where a massacare took place in which 3000 Zulus lost their lives in the massacre of 800 british and 500 African troops
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Settlement Colonies
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Second major type of European overseas possession, including the white dominions and contested settler colonies
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White Dominions
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Areas with European descendants, such as Canada and Australia
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Contested Settler Colonies
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Areas with large numbers of European immigrants that vied with indigenous populations for control of land and natural resources, such as Algeria, Kenya, New Zealand, and Hawaii
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White Racial Supremacy
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The idea of superiority of the Europeans towards the rest of the colonies population
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Great Trek
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A long decade of Boers traveling
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Natal
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The second major outpost on Durban
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Boer Republics
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Established in 1850, two were made by the names of the Orange Free State and Trasavaal
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Cecil Rhodes
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A British entrepreneur
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Boer War
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1889-1902, war between the Boers and the Europeans
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Captain James Cook
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A captain who voyaged through Hawaii
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Kamehameba
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A Hawaiian prince
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Great Mahele
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An edict imposed in 1848 of the property in Hawaii
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