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70 Cards in this Set
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What is a colony administered by local rulers wih European advisors?
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protectorate
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Who was the leader who sparked Islamic revival across West Africa in he early 1800s?
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Usman dan Fodio
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Who was Shaka?
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the leader of he powerful Zulu kingdom in the early 1800's.
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What is the Balance of Trade?
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the difference beween how much a country imports and how much it exports.
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Who promoed Indian cultural pride and is often called the founder of Indian nationalism?
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Ram Mohan Roy.
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What is purdah?
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an Indian tradition of isolating women in separate quarters.
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What is trade surplus?
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an economic situation that occurs when a nation exports more than it imports.
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what is trad deficit?
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an economic situation that occurs when a nation imports more than it exports.
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Who was Guang Xu?
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the emperor who launched the Hundred Days of Reform in China.
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Who was Sun Yixian?
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became president of the new Chinese repbublic after the fall of the Qing dynasty.
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Who's goal was to have the desire to the purity and simplicity of Muhammads original teachings?
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The Wahabi Islamic reform movement.
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As the Ottoman empire crumbled, Russia plotted to sieze the____and____in order to gain access to the Mederanian Sea.
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Bosporus and dardanelles
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The Westerners belif that they had a duty to bring thier civilization to ingerior races was a?
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social darwnism argument in favor of western imperialism.
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What colony did the British help create forr freed slaves in West Africa in 1787?
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Sierra Leone colony
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Who did the Boers of south Africa clash with?
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the Zulus
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What did David Livingstone belive?
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that the end of the slave trade would come from opening the interior of Africa to Christianity and trade.
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Why did King Leopold hire Henry Stanley?
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to explore the Congo river basin and arrange trade treaties with African eaders.
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Who interacted with African natives and saw them as children in need of guidance?
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The Catholic and Protestant missionaries.
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What sparked the Boer War?
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Gold and Diamonds on the Boer lands.
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At the Berlin Conference, European powers agreed that, in order to claim part of Africa, a European power had to set up a _____ _____ there.
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Government Office
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Why was Ethiopia ale to remain independent?
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Because it modernized and imported European weapons.
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What preserved its independence by defeatingn Italian invaders in1896?
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Ethiopia.
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The Shona of Zimbabwe organized to resist European Imperialism under the leadership of who?
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Nehanda.
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In the Ottoman empire, tensions between Turkish nationalists and ethnic groups seeking independence sparked genocide against who?
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the Armenians.
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What is Muhamad Ali called and why?
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the "father of modern Egypt" due to the reforms he made.
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The interest of Europeans in Iran intensified wiht the discovery of what?
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oil in the region.
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What was caused by rifle cartidges greased with animal fat?
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the Sepoy rebellion.
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One result of the Seopy Rebellion was that____ended the rule of the ______ _______ company.
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Parliament, East India
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what did the Indian National Congress push for?
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Indian self-rule.
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What happened in the Treaty of Nanjing?
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Britain gained control of Hong Kong.
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The Hundred Days of Reform in China was partly bought by China's defeat in what?
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the Sino Japanese War.
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What was a result of the Taiping Rebellion that began in China in 1850?
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The Qing government survived but had to share power.
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What movement did not succeed in China because the Qing government did not support it?
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The "Self-strengthening" movement.
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Whats purpose was to protect U.S. trading rights in China?
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The Open door policy.
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What was one of Sun Yixian's "Three Principles of the People?"
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Economic security.f
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What is a Diet?
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another name for Japanese Legislature.
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Who are powerful buisness families who ruled over industrial empires?
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Zaibatsu.
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What did Mongkut do?
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set Siam on the road to modernization.
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Who was Liliuo Kalani?
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Ruler of the Hawaiian Islands who was overthrown by planters from the U.S.
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What is a dominion?
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another word for a self-governing nation.
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What was a British penal colony during the 1700's?
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Australia.
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What are Metis?
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people mixed with Native American and French Canadian descent?
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Who are the Maori?
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Indigenous people of NewZealand.
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Who were strong local leaders in Latin America who challenged central governments for power?
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Caudillos.
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Who helped open an era of liberal reform in Mexico known as La Reforma?
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Benito Juarez
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Absolute power of the emperor was a feature of the_____political system created by____reformers.
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Japanese, mejid
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Who chose Germany as a model for the new Japanese government?
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The Meji reformers.
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What resulted in Japanese Isolation?
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the rise to power of the Tokugawa family.
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What helped Japan modernize in the Meji period.
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Constitutional ending of legal distinctions between classes.
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Who had the same legal status as minors in the Japanese society under the Meji?
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Women.
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Why did President Millard Fillmore send a fleet of American ships into lower Tokyo Bay?
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To force Japan to open its ports.
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Korea was the "______ _____" forced to open its ports to Japanese trade in 1876.
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Hermet Kingdom.
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What was the result of the First Sino-Japanese War?
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Japan gained control of Taiwan.
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What was French Indochina mad up of?
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Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
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Siam avoided becoming a European colony by accepting unequal_____and_____.
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Treaties and modernizing.
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A Filipino complaint about Spanish rule in the 1800's was tht what?
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The Catholic church abused its power.
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What was the result of the Russo-Japanese War?
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Japan gained control of Korea.
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What was the March First Movement?
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a Korean nationalist movement.
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IN the late 1800's, the U.S. Germany, and Britain agreed to a triple protectorate over the Pacific Island of what?
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Samoa
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In the late 1800's, the British began to profit for the important port of what?
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Sinagapore located in southern Malaya.
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What was a result of the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War?
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When the U.S. gained control of the Filipines.
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What did Canada gain as a result of the British North America Act of 1867?
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Self-rule.
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British created the provinces of Upper and Lower____when it passed the_____Act of 1791.
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Canada, Constitutional
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In 1814 Why did the missionaries land in New Zealand?
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To convert the Maori to chrisianity.
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What did the Conservative leaders in Latin America in the 1800's believe?
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in the traditional and social order.
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Who were the first British colonists to settle Azustralia in large numbers?
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Prisoners.
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What resulted in the U.S. gaining control of Texas?
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Armed conflict with the forces of Santa Anna.
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What was the main idea of the monroe doctrine?
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The shutting down of furture colonization of the American continents by European powers.
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What gave the U.S. the right to intervene in the affairs of Cuba?
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the Platt amendment
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The U.S. gained control of land for the_________by helping the_______revolt against Colombia in exchange for the land.
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Panama canal, Panamanian
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