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WS Imperialism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | when a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain. |
| Racism | racial or ethnic prejudice or intolerance. |
| Social Darwinism | the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better |
| Berlin Conference | Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa, No Africans present |
| Shaka | a Zulu chief (1816–28) and the founder of the Zulu empire in Southern Africa. He is credited with creating a fighting force that devastated the entire region |
| Boer | people in southern Africa who traced their ancestry to Dutch, German and French Huguenot settlers who arrived in the Cape of Good Hope from 1652 |
| Boer war | the British Army fought a bitter colonial war against the Boers in South Africa. Although outnumbered, the Boers were a skilled and determined enemy. |
| Empire | a nation that controls many territories and is ruled by a single authority figure |
| David Livingstone | Scottish missionary, doctor, abolitionist, and explorer who lived in the 1800s. He sought to bring Christianity, commerce, and “civilization” to Africa and undertook three extensive expeditions throughout much of the continent. |
| Henry Stanely | Welsh-born American journalist and explorer, famous for his search for David Livingstone and his part in the European colonisation of Africa |
| Cecil Rhodes | British politician and statesman. He spent his life trying to expand the British Empire, particularly in southern Africa. |
| Zulu | largest population of ethnic groups in South Africa; making up to 10-11 million people. They are known for their strong fighting spirit which has fashioned renowned warriors |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister saw British imperialism as a form of altruism that benefited its subject peoples because "by conquering and dominating other peoples |
| Paternalism | social hierarchies of patriarchal cultures, in which fathers or male heads of families were understood to be authority figures responsible for the welfare of subordinates and dependents. |
| Assimilation | the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society. |
| Menelik 2 | Emperor of Ethiopia strategy to resist imperialism was twofold: military modernisation and diplomatic manoeuvring. |
| Direct control | imperial nation takes political control of another area or nation. It provides administration to run the colony, and the colony has specific boundaries on a map that diplomacy |
| Indirect Control | a system of governance of one powerful territory over a territory that it has conquered. |
| Nigeria 3 Main Ethnic Groups | Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo |
| Samori Toure | Muslim reformer and military leader who founded a powerful kingdom in West Africa and resisted French colonial expansion |
| Geopolitics | truggle over the control of geographical entities with an international and global dimension, and the use of such geographical entities for political advantage |
| Crimean War | one of the first truly modern wars. New technologies, such as railways, telegraphs, and steamships, which did not exist during the Napoleonic Wars enabled the combatants to rapidly deploy forces into numerous theaters of combat |
| Suez canal | a human-made waterway that cuts north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea |
| Ottoman Empire | former Turkish empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa, which lasted from the late 13th century until the end of World War |
| Sepoy | a native of India employed as a soldier by a European power |
| “Jewel in the crown” | India's place in the British Empire |
| Sepoy mutiny | revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India |
| Raj | the former British rule of the Indian subcontinent |
| Nationalism | societal unity around shared ethnic traits such as language, beliefs, and traditions. |
| Pacific Rim | a general geographic reference to the countries located on, along, and within the physical boundaries of the Pacific Ocean |
| King Mongkut | embraced Western innovations and initiated the modernization of his country, both in technology and culture |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino revolutionary, statesman, and military leader who is the youngest president of the Philippines |
| Annexation | when one country forcibly asserts control and sovereignty over another country's territory |
| Queen Liluokalani | he Hawaiian Kingdom's only reigning queen and last monarch before the overthrow of the sovereign state. |
| Indochina | the three countries of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia formerly associated with France, first within its empire and later within the French Union |
| Dutch east india company | an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. |
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