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TERMS

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Industrialization   large scale production using machine power  
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Natural resources   naturally occurring materials such as coal, fertile land, etc, that can be used by man  
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Finished product   goods that have completed the manufacturing process  
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Nationalism   strong feeling of loyalty to the country where one was born or raised  
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Conquer   to overcome; defeat  
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Imperialism   when one country has complete control of another country, politically, economically, and socially, and they call the country their own  
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Compete   to strive to outdo or excel  
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Sphere of influence   an area in which an outside power claimed exclusive dominant power  
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Social Darwinism   The idea that the strongest people deserve the land and resources that they want  
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Colony   a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation  
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Colonization   to establish a colony  
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Pride   a feeling of honor and self-respect  
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Loyalty   a sense of duty or of devoted attachment to something or someone  
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Nation   a territory or country itself  
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Persuade   to urge a person to do something  
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Power   political or national strength  
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Superior   higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.  
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Trade   the act of buying, selling, or exchanging  
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Interaction   to act on or in close relation with each other  
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Superiority   showing a consciousness or feeling of being better than or above others  
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Racism   The belief that some races are inherently superior (physically, intellectually, or culturally) to others and therefore have a right to dominate them  
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Partitioned   a division into parts; separation  
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Scarcity   shortness of supply  
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White Man’s Burden   belief that the superiority of the European civilization obligated them to impose their practices on supposedly primitive nonwhites  
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Humanitarian   having the interests of mankind at heart  
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Partitioned   a division into parts; separation  
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Scramble for Africa   European powers competed over land and people through Africa to capitalize on the natural resources to aid the industrialization of their European country  
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Boer War   Boers (Afrikaners, descendants of the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa) vs. British Empire  
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Reasons for Imperialism   economic, military, religious, political, social  
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Militarism   the greater the military the greater the nation  
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Alliance   nations promise to support one another in conflict  
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Boer War   Boers (Afrikaners, descendants of the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa) vs. British Empire  
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Sepoy   Indian soldier in British India. They rebelled against British rule over the use of animal fat in their rifle cartridges.  
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Berlin Conference   1884-1885 conference held by European nations at which they planned the division of Africa into colonial possessions.  
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Protectorate   A territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power  
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Mother country   the country of origin of settlers or colonists in a place (Ex. Great Britain mother country of 13 colonies in America)  
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Civilize   to teach (a person or group of people) to behave in a way that you think is more polite, gentle, and educated  
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British East India Company   Joint stock Company that grew incredibly powerful through trade in the East Indies (modern day Indonesia)  
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