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Imperialism Chapter 27 Section 1-4
| What does Imperialism mean? | The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country. |
| Who was David Livingston? | A missionary from Scotland, traveled with a group of Africans deep into central. |
| What was the world's first automatic machine gun? | The Maxim gun. |
| What did the steam engine allow? | Europeans to easily travel on rivers to establish bases of control deep in the African continent. |
| Where did the Fourteen European nations meet? | At the Berlin Conference. |
| Who was Shaka? | A zulu chief who used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state. |
| What were two other names for Boers? | One was Dutch for framers and another one was Afrikaners. |
| What was the Boer War? | It was known as a South African War. It was between the British and the Boers. It was the first modern "total" war. |
| Who served as a British prime minister during World War One? | Winston Churchill. |
| What were discovered in South Arica in 1860s and 1880s? | Diamonds and Gold. |
| What are the four forms of Imperialism? | Colony, Protectorate, Sphere of Influence, and Economic Imperialism. |
| What did indirect rely on? | Existing political rulers. |
| What does paternalism mean? | Europeans governed people in a parental way by providing for their needs by not giving them rights. |
| What were some positive effects for colonialism? | Economic growth of railroads, dams, and telephone. Reduced local warfare. |
| What were some negative effects for colonialism? | People died of diseases such as smallpox. People lost control of their land and their independence. |
| What was the Crimean War? | The ottoman empire, with the aid of British and France, halted Russian expansion in the region of the Black Sea. |
| What was the Great Trek? | It was the migration into the south African interior of thousands of boers seeking to escape British control. |
| What was the Sepoy Mutiny? | It was a rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India. |
| What was direct control? | It was the where the foreign officials brought in to rule and no self rule. Their goal was assimilation. |
| What was the Suez Canal? | It was human made, a waterway, which was opened in 1869, which was connected to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt. |
| What was Social Darwinism? | It was an application based on Charles Darwin's ideas. |
| What was assimilation? | It was a policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs. |
| Who was Menelik II? | An emperor of Ethiopia, who was very successful in keeping his country independent. |
| What were sepoys? | They were indian soldiers serving under British command. |
| Who were geopolitics? | They were an interest in or taking land for its strategic location or products. |
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