World History Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Nationalism | Strong sense of pride in your country |
Imperialism | Stronger nations create empires by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally, or militarily |
Social Darwinism (ethnocentrism) | Belief that the strongest cultures and nations should dominate the weaker areas |
Mother Country | Country who had colonies EX: Great Britain - mother country, India - colony |
Direct Rule | Area controlled in all areas by the mother country; impose the European culture on the colony colony - under indirect rule |
Indirect Rule | Mother country used local rulers and encouraged local rulers' children to get a European education to become Westernized |
Protectorate | Area where local rulers are left in place but were expected to follow the advice of European advisors from the mother country |
Partition | Break into parts; the European countries partitioned Africa into colonies |
Paternalism ("White Man's Burden") | Saw the people in the colonies as children who needed to be taken care of/in need of guidance |
The "Scramble" for Africa | European nations taking over control of areas in Africa (dividing Africa up) |
African "Elite" | Upper class Africans who were Western (European) educated |
Interdependance | Mutual dependance of countries on goods, labor, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world |
Mercantilism | Economic system in which the mother country gets natural resources from the colonies and sells finished goods back to the colonies |
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