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11 Cards in this Set
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sepoys |
- Troops that served the British East India Company - recruitment from various warlike peoples of India |
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British Raj
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- British political establishment in India
- development as a result of the rivalry between France and Britain in India |
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princely states
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- Domains of Indian princes allied with the British Raj
- agents of East India Company were stationed at the rulers - courts to ensure compliance - made up over one-third of the British Indian Empire |
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tropical dependencies
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The greater portion of the European empires consisting of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large populations of non-Western peoples
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settlement colonies
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Areas, such as North America and Australia, that were both conquered by European invaders and settled by large numbers of European migrants who made the colonized areas their permanent home and dispersed and decimated the indigenous inhabitants
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White Dominions
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- Colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population
- small numbers of native inhabitants were typically reduced by disease and wars of conquest - typical of British holdings in North America and Australia with growing independence in 19th century |
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white racial supremacy
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- Belief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites
- peaked in acceptance in decades before World War I - supported by social science doctrines of social Darwinists such as Herbert Spencer |
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Boer Republics
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- Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa
- established to assert independence of Boers from British colonial government in Cape Colony in 1850s - discovery of diamonds and precious metals caused British migration into the Boer areas in 1860s |
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Cecil Rhodes
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- British entrepreneur in south Africa around 1900
- manipulated political situation in south Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republics - encouraged Boer War as means of destroying Boer independence |
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Anglo-Boer War
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- Fought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics
- resulting in British victory, but began the process for decolonization of whites in South Africa |
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Captain James Cook
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- Made voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 resulting in opening of islands to the West- convinced Kamehameha to establish unified kingdom in the islands
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