World History Vocab Words

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captain the made voyages to Hawaii

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Cook

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joint stock company that obtained government monopoly over trade in India

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British East India Company

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Southeast Asian island controlled by Dutch

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Java

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Pacific islands annexed by America

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Hawaii

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architect of British victory at Plassey

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Clive

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supremacy belief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites

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white racial supremacy

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colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the populations

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white dominions

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Dutch settlement on the Cape of Good Hope

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Cape Colony

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fought between 1899 and 1902 over the independence pf Boer republics; resulted in British victory

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Boer war

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practice of interracial marriage

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miscegenation

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movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony to escape influence of British

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Great Trek

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fought series of wars backed by British weapons and advisors resulting in unified Hawaiian kingdom; prompted economic change encouraging Western merchants to establish export trade

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kamehameha

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Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa

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Boer republics

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Dutch fortress located after 1620 on the island of Java

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batavia

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Indian troops that served the British East India Company

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sepoys

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British reps of the East India Company who went to make fortunes through graft and exploitation

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nabobs

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the jewel in the British colonial empire

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India

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African tribe Boers came into conflict with

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Zulus

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British entrepreneur in South Africa to gain diamonds

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Cecil Rhodes

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African country that withstood European colonization

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ethiopia

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Asian country that withstood European colonization

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siam

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King Leopold II

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-king of Belgium
-in 1885, he gained a bast area in central Africa as his personal possession
-His greed and the system of forced labor he imposed there prompted the first human rights movements of the 20th century

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Cecil Rhodes

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1894- found the country of Rhodesia

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policy of isolationism (year)

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until 19th century

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opium war (year)

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1839

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The Boxer Rebellion (year)

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1899

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Open door policy (year)

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1900

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self- strengthening movement (year)

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1860

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Taiping Rebellion (year)

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1851-1864

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Nurhaci

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architect of unity among the quarrelsome Manchu tribes

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Kangxi

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Confucian scholar and Machu emperor of Qing dynasty from 1661 to 1722; established high degree of Sinification among the Manchus

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Zhu Xi

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writer who had writings that had been so influential in the preceding dynastic eras

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Compradors

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wealthy new group of Chinese merchants under the Qing dynasty; specialized in the import-export trade of China's south coast; one of the major links between China and the outside world