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New Imperialism |
Period of colonial expansion for European power, United States of America, and the empire of japan during the late 19th and early 20th century |
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White Man's Burden |
A form of racist paternalism that preached that the "superior" westerners had an obligation to bring their culture to "uncivilized" peoples in other parts of the world |
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Rudyard Kepling |
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King".
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Protectorate |
a state that is controlled and protected by another.
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Colony |
a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country
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Commonwealth |
an intergovernmental organisation of 52 member states that were mostly former territories of the British Empire.
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Social Darwinism |
Half baked philosophical application of Darwin's theory of natural selection bolstered the idea that some races or peoples were more fit for survival than others and therefore designed by nature for rule |
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Missionary |
When Christians would go on missions to spread Christianity |
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Scramble for Africa |
When European powers rushed to get their share of Africa |
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Dark Continent |
Referred to Africa because of how mysterious it was to the Europeans |
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Cecil Rhodes |
Prime minister of cape colony |
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Suez Canal |
Built by French engineers, connected the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. |
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Berlin conference |
A meeting between European powers discussing how to split up Africa t |
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Apartheid |
Separateness |
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Afrikans |
Dutch settlers in African |
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Boer war |
War between a Boer and British Empire through Guerilla warfare |
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Zulus |
African Empire |
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Ferdinand de Lesseps |
French diplomat and later dev |
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Henry Stanley |
English born journalists and explorer, took an expedition to the Congo and on Leopolds behalf made treaties with African rulers
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Jules Ferry |
Sponsored a series of educational laws |
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David Livingstone |
British physician and missionary. Spent many years setting up Christian ministries in Central Africa. His reports made many British people aware of business opportunities and missionary opportunities. opposed slave trade.
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Battle of Omdurman |
a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese
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Samory Toure |
The African ruler and state builder Samory Toure held the French at bay for 15 years and created one of the most powerful, best-organized states in the western Sudan. His military and administrative genius was compared to Napoleon's
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French Algerian War |
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East India Company |
Leading power of India from the collapse of the Mughal Empire from Battle of Plassey. Traded with east India and other countries
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Indian National Congress |
A group that concerned the well-being of the specified Indians. Later called for self-government (1885) |
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"Jewel in the crown" |
they considered india the most valuable of british colony hence the name Jewel in the Crown. They got raw materials and markets are one of the big causes
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Sepoy Mutiny/rebellion |
Sepoy MutinyThe uprising of Indian soldiers against British soldiers due to the refusal to accept new rifles because they were greased with pork, against the Muslim religion and greased with beef fat that went against the Hindi religion as they considered the cow scared
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Muslim League |
organization formed by muslims in 1906 to protect their interests against British Rule.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
Head of muslim league; becomes pakistans first general governaer
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Mohandas K. Gandhi |
political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule
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Nehru |
India's first Prime Minister
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Opium Wars |
A war mostly overseas over the amount of opium being imported into china, British victory because they had stronger naval power
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Treaty of Nanking |
The Chinese agreed to:1. Open five coastal ports2. Limit taxes on British imports3. Pay cost of the Opium war.4. Give Hong Kong to Great Britain.5. Allowing westerns living in China to break the law but they have to go back to their homeland and suffer the consequences. This is known as extraterritoriality.
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Indemnity |
British citizens in china had the right to live under their own laws and be tried in their own courts
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Extraterritoriality |
an exemption of foreign residents from the laws of a country
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Sphere of influence |
a foreign region in which a nation has control trade and other economic activites
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Boxer Rebellion |
when a group of Chinese tried to drive out the "foreign devils" who were polluting the land with their un-chinese culture, buildings, and technology
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Taiping Rebellion |
peasants were angry about foriegners and took over 500 cities before europeans joined and took down the Taipings after 14 years
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Open door policy |
American approach to China Around1900, favoring open trade relations between China and other nations
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Sun Yixian |
President of the Chinese Republic, was faced with war or fighting off foreign invasions during his whole reign, creates revolutionary alliance
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"Three Principles of the People" |
Nationalism, democracy, livelihood(Freeing china from foreign invasion, representative government, economic security)
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Unequal treaties |
treaties imposed on the qing dynasty by the western forces that had defeated them
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Tokogawa Shogunate |
ruled through a central bureaucracy tied by feudal alliances to local daimyos and samurai- taxes based on agriculture
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Meiji Restoration |
Mutsuhito: new emperor of Japan; decides that they are going to modernize; create a diet and make it more of a western type of gov.
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Matthew Perry |
an American who threatened to bombard the Japanese capital if they did not open up to American trade
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Russo-Japan's War |
Japan & Russia fought for control of Manchuria; won easily & Russia was humiliated
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