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7-3.6 Burnette
Nationalistic Reactions to Imperialism
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Zulu Wars | Imperial competition for land in South Africa by industrial nations against nationalism. The Dutch, British, and African people all sought the land & resources of the country; Zulus lost to the British in the 1880s, becoming part of the British Empire |
| Sepoy Rebellion | an unsuccessful Hindu and Muslim revolt against British rule in India in 1857; it marked the first Indian effort to achieve independence from Great Britain |
| Opium Wars | two wars fought in the mid-1800s between the British and the Chinese when the Chinese government wanted Britain to stop selling opium, a horrible drug, to its people |
| Boxer Rebellion | when the Chinese, using martial arts, fought against imperial powers in China in 1900 in a failed attempt to rid China of foreign influence and Christianity |
| Meiji Restoration | when the Japanese, beginning in 1868, quickly built up their industry and military so that Western nations could not take them over |
| South Africa | a nation on the southern tip of Africa, wherein the Dutch, British, and Africans fought for land and resources |
| Shaka Zulu | He created a centralized Zulu Kingdom in South Africa and led his people in a war against the Dutch Boers / Afrikaners in the early 1800s to keep them from taking his lands |
| Zulu Kingdom | African kingdom in South Africa |
| Boers | Dutch settlers known as Afrikaners (in South Africa) |
| British East India Company | a private company which initially ran the colony of India for England, then Great Britain, until the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion |
| Mughal Empire | the Empire set up by Indians; it ruled India for several hundred years before the British took over |
| Sepoys | Indian soldiers who were hired to protect the British East India Company, which governed India |
| Jewel in the Crown | India was called this because it was the most important and most profitable colony in the British Empire |
| HIndu | people who belong to the religion of Hinduism, a very diverse religion which is the most common religion of India, and which tends to believe in the concepts of karma and reincarnation |
| Muslim | people who belong to the religion of Islam and believe that Muhammad was a prophet and that Allah is the true God |
| Opium | the dried juice of a poppy flower; it is used to make heroin, which is an awful drug |
| Opium trade | when Britain was selling opium, a bad drug, to China in the mid-1800s |
| Taiping Rebellion | a failed, massive rebellion in China from 1850-1864 whose leader thought he was Jesus’s little brother; 20 million people died |
| Open Door Policy | U.S. 1899 policy stating that China should be open to trade with all nations rather than just one or a few nations having control of the country |
| Righteous and Harmonious Fists / the Boxers | a nationalistic organization which used marital arts to try to remove foreigners from Chinese soil, led the Boxer Rebellion |
| Eight-nation alliance | The Boxers were defeated by this alliance consisting of nations that had economic interests there (Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) |
| Imperial aggression | when one country aggressively takes over another country or another people so that is has control and access to its (their) raw materials and natural resources |
| Meiji | In 1868, the emperor of Japan took this title which means “enlightened rule.” |
| conservatives | With regard to Japan in the 1800s, this term described people who liked things the way they were, and who believed in tradition |
| Sino-Japanese War | 1895 war between China and Japan; Japan won and took Korea |
| Russo-Japanese War | 1905 war between Russia and Japan; Japan won and became a “world power.” |
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