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Ch.11 honors
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperailism | seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country |
| Racism | beleif that one race is better than others |
| Social Darwinism | natural selection applied to human society |
| Berlin Conference | 14 nations agree on rules for division(1884-85) |
| Shaka | Zulu chief creates centralized state around 1816 |
| Boers | Dutch farmers, take Africans' land, establish large farms |
| Boer War | between British begins in 1899 |
| Paternalism | europeans provide for local people, but grant no rights |
| Assimiltation | adaption of local people ruling culture |
| Menelik II | empreror of Ethiopia in 1889, resists Europeans |
| Geopolitics | taking land for its strategic location |
| Suez Canal | human made- waterway connects Red Sea to Meditterean |
| Sepoys | Indian soliders |
| India most valuable country | "jewel in the crown |
| Sepoy Mutiny | against Britian |
| Raj | refers to British rule after India came under the British crown |
| Lands of Southeast Asia that border Pacific Ocean | Pacific Rim |
| King Mongkut | modernizes country starts school reforms legal system reorganizes gov't builds transportation and telegraph systems ends slavery |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | leads Filipion nationalists against U.S. rule |
| annexation | added territory to country |
| Queen Liluokalni | tries to restore HAWAIIAN CONTROL |