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WH - Topic 15 Vocab
WH - Topic 15 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| protectorate | country with its own government but under the control of an outside power |
| sphere of influence | area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges |
| paternalistic | the system of governing a country as a father would a child |
| elite | upper class |
| Mahdi | a Muslim savior of the faith |
| pasha | provincial ruler in the Ottoman empire |
| sultan | Muslim ruler |
| genocide | deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
| concession | special economic right given to a foreign power |
| sati | Hindu custom that called for a widow to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral pyre |
| sepoy | Indian soldier who served in an army set up by the French or English trading companies |
| viceroy | one who governed in India in the name of the British monarch |
| deforestation | the destruction of forest land |
| purdah | isolation of women in separate quarters |
| balance of trade | difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports |
| trade surplus | situation in which a country exports more than it imports |
| trade deficit | situation in which a country imports more than it exports |
| indemnity | payment for losses in war |
| extraterritoriality | right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation |
| zaibatsu | since the late 1800s, powerful banking and industrial families in Japan |
| homogeneous society | society that has common culture and language |
| indigenous | original or native to a country or region |
| penal colony | place where people convicted of crimes are sent |
| regionalism | loyalty to a local area |
| caudillo | military dictator in Latin America |
| peonage | system by which workers owe labor to pay their debts |
| confederation | unification |
| dominion | self-governing nation |
| metis | people of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent |