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new imperialism test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ram Mohun Roy | great scholar, felt that India could learn from the west |
| Guang Xu | young emperor, launched the hundered days of reform |
| Sun Yixian | a passionate spokesman for Chinese republic |
| Usman dan Fodio | called for social and religious reform based on Islamic law |
| Shaka | ruthless and brilliant leader of the Zulus |
| Leopold 2 | called the Berlin Conference of 1884, ruler of the Belgium |
| purdah | isolation of women in seperate quarters |
| protectorate | local rulers that were left in place but were expected to follow the advice of european advisors on issues such as trade or missionary activity |
| trade surplus | export more than import |
| trade deficit | buying more than sold |
| balance of trade | refers to difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports |
| social darwinism | theory of neutral selection applied to human beings |
| boer war | war from 1899 to 1902 when britain defeated the Boers of south africa |
| wahhabi | movement in Arabia rejected the schools of theology and law that had emerged in the Ottoman empire |
| sepoy rebellion | several sepoy regiments that marched off to delhi the old Mughal capital there they build the Mughal ruler as their leader |
| open door policy | American approach to China around 1900, favoring open trade relations between China and other nations |
| berlin conference of 1884 | 1884 to avoid bloodshed european powers met at an international conference and it took place in africa but no africans were invited |
| seirra leone | 1787 british organized in west africa as a colony for former slaves |
| ehtipoia | independant country in Africa |
| Iran | (persia) where oil is |
| suez canal | in 1858 a french entrepenuer Ferdinand de Lesseps organized a company to build the suez canal |