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Chapter12imperialism
study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is ram mohun roy? | indian religous and social reformer. |
| who is guang xu? | AN EMPERON OF CHINA WHOSE REIGN WAS MARKED BY PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL HUMILIATION. |
| WHO IS SUN YIXIAN? | FIRST LEADER OF THE CHINESE NATIONALIST PARTY KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF MODERN CHINA |
| WHO IS USMAN DAN FODIO? | (born December 1754, Maratta, Gobir, Hausaland — died 1817, Sokoto, Fulani empire) Fulani mystic, philosopher, and revolutionary reformer. |
| WHO IS SHAKA? | founder of southern Africa's Zulu kingdom. |
| who is leopold II? | Holy Roman emperor. He hired standley to explore the congo river basin and arrange trade tradies with african leaders. |
| what is purdah? | A curtain or screen, used mainly in India to keep women separate from men or strangers. |
| what is protectorate? | A country with its own government but under the control of an outside power. |
| what is trade surplus? | An economic measure of a positive balance of trade, where a country's exports exceeds its imports. |
| what is trade deficit? | Western bought more from the chinese than they sold to them. |
| what is balance of trade? | The difference in value between the total exports and total imports of a nation during a specific period of time. |
| what is social darwinism? | The application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority survival of the fittest. |
| what is boer war? | A war fought from 1899 to 1902 between an alliance of the Boer governments of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State on the one hand and Great Britain on the other. |
| what is wahhabi? | A member of a Muslim sect founded by Abdul Wahhab (1703-1792), known for its strict observance of the Koran and flourishing mainly in Arabia. |
| what is sepoy rebellion? | indian solders who rose up to there british officers and swept across northern and central india massacring british men , women and childrens. |
| what is open door policy? |