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33 Cards in this Set
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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
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