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Chapter 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Suez Canal | completed in 1869, allowed Europeans to reach distant Asian, African, and Pacific ports more quickly and predictably and to penetrate interior rivers as well. |
| Scientific Racism | A new kind of racism that emerged in the nineteenth century that increasingly used the prestige and apparatus of science to support European racial prejudices and preferences. |
| Civilizing Mission | A European understanding of empire that emphasized Europeans’ duty to “civilize inferior races” by bringing Christianity, good government, education, work discipline, and production for the market to colonized peoples, while suppressing “native customs,” |
| Social Darwinism | An outlook that suggested that European dominance inevitably led to the displacement or destruction of backward peoples or “unfit” races; this view made imperialism, war, and aggression seem both natural and progressive. |
| Scramble for Africa | The process by which European countries partitioned the continent of Africa among themselves in the period 1875–1900. |
| Samir I Toure | Warrior king, empire builder and hero of the resistance against the French colonization of West Africa during the 19th century |
| Battle of Isandlwana | 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom |
| Boer War | the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa from 1899 to 1902 |
| Spanish-American War | 1898 an armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence |
| Battle of Adowa | The Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force on Sunday 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa. The decisive victory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of Africa |
| Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858 | Massive uprising of much of India against British rule caused by the introduction to the colony’s military forces of a new cartridge smeared with animal fat from pigs and cows |
| Congo Free State | A private colony ruled personally by Leopold II, king of Belgium; it was the site of widespread forced labor and killing to ensure the collection of wild rubber; by 1908 these abuses led to reforms that transferred control to the Belgian government. |
| Cultivation System | System of forced labor used in the Netherlands East Indies in the nineteenth century; peasants were required to cultivate at least 20 percent of their land in cash crops, such as sugar or coffee, for sale at low and fixed prices to government contractors |
| Maji Maji Rebellion | 1904-1905 rebellion against cultivation. System persuaded the Germans to end the forced growing of cotton. Thus the actions of colonized peoples could alter or frustrate the plans of the colonizers. |
| Cash-Crop Production | Agricultural production of crops for sale in the market rather than for consumption by the farmers themselves; operated at the level of both individual farmers and large-scale plantations. |
| Female Circumcision | The excision of a pubescent girl’s clitoris and adjacent genital tissue as part of initiation rites marking her coming-of-age; missionary efforts to end the practice sparked a widespread exodus from mission churches in colonial Kenya. |
| Africanization of Christianity | Process that occurred in non-Muslim Africa, where many who converted to Christianity sought to incorporate older traditions, values, and practices into their understanding of Christianity |
| Hinduism | A religion based on the many beliefs, practices, sects, rituals, and philosophies in India; in the thinking of nineteenth-century Indian reformers, it was expressed as a distinctive tradition, an Indian religion wholly equivalent to Christianity. |
| Swami Vivekananda | an Indian Hindu monk and philosopher. He was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna |
| African Identity | emerged by the end of the nineteenth century among well-educated Africans; it was influenced by the common experience of colonial oppression and European racism and was an effort to revive the cultural self-confidence of their people. |
| Edward Blyden | Prominent West African scholar and political leader who argued that each civilization, including that of Africa, has its own unique contribution to make to the world. |
| Idea of “tribe” | A new sense of clearly defined ethnic identities that emerged in twentieth-century Africa, often initiated by Europeans intent on showing the primitive nature of their colonial subjects, adopted by Africans themselves responding to modern life. |
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