Ch 11 vocab
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- Boers
- the Dutch settlers in South Africa
- Berlin Conference (1884-85)
- a meeting of European nations that's purpose was to divide up Africa
- internal forces
- variety of cultures and languages, low level of technology, ethnic strife
- Queen Liliuokalani
- the last monarch of Hawaii
- Ram Mohun Roy
- was an Indian who modernized India
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- leader of the Filipino nationalists who declared independence from the US
- Crimean War
- war where the Russians were against the Ottomans, British, and French. showed how weak the Ottoman empire was
- Suez Canal
- a manmade waterway connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, which was opened in 1869
- Social Darwinism
- the application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies--- particularly as justification for imperialist expansion
- Raj
- the British-controlled portions of India in the years 1757-1947
- Stanford B. Dole
- the president of the republic of Hawaii and asked for Hawaii to be annexed
- annexation
- the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit
- racism
- the belief that one race is superior to the others
- paternalism
- a policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights
- Menelik II
- the emperor of Ethiopia that successfully kept Ethiopia independent from European rule
- European motives (for Imperialism)
- nationalism, economic competion, European racism, missionary impulse
- Imperialism
- a policy in which a stronger nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, or economically
- jewel in the crown
- the British colony of India--- so called because of its importance in the British empire, both as a supplier of raw materials and as a market for British trade goods
- sepoy
- an Indian soldier serving under British command
- assimilation
- a policy based on the idea that in time, the local populations would become absorbed into French culture
- Muhammad Ali
- ruler of Egypt who lost the Suez Canal to the British
- Boer war
- British vs. Boers for control of South Africa
- Shaka
- a Zulu chief that created a large centralized state in Africa and was ale to hold off Europeans until his successors lost his land
- geopolitics
- interest or taking land for its strategic location or products
- Great Trek
- The Boer movement North and ended up exactly where they started
- Suleiman I
- the last great ruler of the Ottoman empire
- external forces
- Maxim guns, railroads and steamships, cure for malaria
- Sepoy Mutiny
- an 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India
- King Mongkut
- realized importance of modernizing Siam
- Selim III
- tried to reform the Ottoman empire but failed