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| 9136096119 | Great Game | An intense rivalry between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing through 1907. Britain sought influence or control in much of Central Asia, to buffer the "crown jewel" of its empire - British India. | 0 | |
| 9136096120 | Imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. | 1 | |
| 9136096121 | Scramble for Africa | The invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914. | 2 | |
| 9136096122 | Sepoys | An Indian soldier serving under British or other European orders. | 3 | |
| 9136096123 | Sepoy Mutiny | A revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857-59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown. | 4 | |
| 9136096124 | Raj | British sovereignty in India. | 5 | |
| 9136096125 | King Leopold II | The second King of the Belgians, known for the founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture. | 6 | |
| 9136096126 | Congo Free State | A large state in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908, which was in personal union with the Kingdom of Belgium under Leopold II. | 7 | |
| 9136096127 | Berlin Conference | Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. | 8 | |
| 9136096128 | Abyssinia | Relating to Abyssinia or its people. | 9 | |
| 9136096129 | Liberia | Republic in western Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone to the northwest, Guinea to the north, the Ivory Coast to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest. | 10 | |
| 9136096130 | Zulu Kingdom | A monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to Pongola River in the north. | 11 | |
| 9136096131 | Anglo-Zulu War | A concession was granted by Bartle Frere until 11 January 1879, after which Bartle Frere deemed a state of war to exist. The British forces intended for the defense of Natal had already been on the march with the intention to attack the Zulu kingdom. | 12 | |
| 9136096132 | Boer Wars | A war in which Great Britain fought against the Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1899-1902. | 13 | |
| 9136096133 | Roosevelt Corollary | The Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country. | 14 | |
| 9136096134 | Indian National Congress | A broad-based political party in India. Founded in 1885, it dominated the independence movement in the 1930s under Mahatma Gandhi, and has been the principal party in government since 1947. | 15 | |
| 9136096135 | Pan-Africanism | The principle or advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa. | 16 | |
| 9136096136 | Export Economies | A function of international trade whereby goods produced in one country are shipped to another country for future sale or trade. | 17 | |
| 9136096137 | Cash Crops | A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. | 18 | |
| 9136096138 | Tea | A hot drink made by infusing the dried, crushed leaves of the tea plant in boiling water. | 19 | |
| 9136096139 | Cecil Rhodes | A British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. | 20 | |
| 9136096140 | Goa | A state of west-central India on the Malabar Coast. Formerly a Portuguese colony (1510-1961), it was annexed by India in 1962 and formed a constituent part of the union territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu until 1987. | 21 | |
| 9136096141 | Pondicherry | A union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India. | 22 | |
| 9136096142 | Corvee Laborers | 1. unpaid labor (as toward constructing roads) due from a feudal vassal to his lord. 2 : labor exacted in lieu of taxes by public authorities especially for highway construction or repair. | 23 | |
| 9136096143 | Indentured Laborers | A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country. | 24 | |
| 9136096144 | Penal Colony | A settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. | 25 | |
| 9136096145 | Convicts | A person found guilty of a criminal offense and serving a sentence of imprisonment. | 26 | |
| 9136096146 | Monocultures | The cultivation of a single crop in a given area. | 27 | |
| 9136096147 | Quinine | A bitter crystalline compound present in cinchona bark, used as a tonic and formerly as an antimalarial drug. | 28 | |
| 9136096148 | Suez Canal | An artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. | 29 | |
| 9136096149 | Charles Darwin | He created a theory of biological evolution stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. | 30 | |
| 9136096150 | Phrenologists | A pseudo medicine primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. | 31 | |
| 9136096151 | Social Darwinism | The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. | 32 | |
| 9136096152 | Herbert Spencer | An English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era. | 33 | |
| 9136096153 | David Livingstone | A Scottish congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of the late-19th-century in Victorian Britain. | 34 | |
| 9136096154 | Afrikaners | An Afrikaans-speaking person in South Africa, especially one descended from the Dutch and Huguenot settlers of the 17th century. | 35 | |
| 9136096155 | Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement | Prophetess whose prophecies led to a millennialist movement that culminated in this crisis of 1856-1857, in what is now the Eastern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa. | 36 | |
| 9136096156 | Concentration Camps | A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. | 37 | |
| 9136096157 | Aborigines | A person, animal, or plant that has been in a country or region from earliest times. | 38 | |
| 9136096158 | Maori | A member of the aboriginal people of New Zealand, the Polynesian language of the Maori. | 39 | |
| 9136096159 | White Australia Policy | Australia's previous approach to immigration which favoured applicants from certain countries. The first Act of Parliament passed after Federation was the Immigration Restriction Act (1901), also known as.... | 40 |
