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343430559Shaka ZuluAround 1816 used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state. His land became part of British-controlled land in 1887.0
343430560Sokoto Caliphatea large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria1
343430561ModernizationThe process of reforming political, military, economic, social, and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies, often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies2
343430562Muhammad AliLeader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor but had imperial ambitions. his descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.3
343430563IsmailMuhammad Ali's grandson who placed even more emphasis on westernizing Egypt. His efforts increased the number of European advisers in Egypt, as well as Egypt's debts to French and British banks.4
343430564Legitimate tradeExports from Africa in the nineteenth century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade.5
343430565RecaptivesAfricans rescued by Britain's Royal Navy from the illegal slave trade of the nineteenth century and restored to free status.6
343430566Tippu Tipregarded as a "remarkable man", a "picture of energy and strength" with "a fine intelligent face: almost courtier-like in his manner". he also composed a detailed memoiir of his adventures in the heart of Africa, written in the Swahlili language of te coast.7
343430567NawabA Muslim prince allied to British India; technically, a semi-autonomous deputy of the Mughal emperor8
343430568Sepoy RebellionThe revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs9
343454916British rajthe rule over much of South Asia between 1765 and 1947 by the East India Company and then by a British government10
343454917DurbarsAn elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century, ostensibly in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire11
343454918MenelikEmperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).12
343454919Panama CanalShip canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States Army engineers; it opened in 1915. It greatly shortened the sea voyage between the east and west coasts of North America. The United States turned the canal over to Panama on Jan 1, 2000 (746)13
343454920Rammohun Roya successful administrator for the East India Company and a student of comparative religion. His Brahmo Samaj attracted Indians who sought to reconcile the values of the West with the religious traditions of India.14
343454921AfrikanersSouth Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910. (735)15
343454922Great TrekBetween 1836 and 1839 parties of Afrikaners embarked on this, leaving British ruled Cape Colony for the fertile high plateau to the north that two decades of Zulu wars had depopulated.16
343454923MaoriNew Zealand was inhabited by about 250,000 of these people, who practiced hunting, fishing, and simple forms of agriculture, which their Polynesian ancestors had introducded around 200017
343454924Matthew Perrya navy commander who, on July 8, 1853, became the first foreigner to break through the barriers that had kept Japan isolated from the rest of the world for 250 years18
343454925RailroadsNetworks of iron railers on which steam locmotives pulled long trains at high speeds .The first were built in England in the 1830s. Their success caused a boom throughout the world that lasted well into the twentieth century.19
346197101SteelA form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction, machinery, and railroad equipment20
346197102Emilio AguinaldoLeader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899, but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.21
346197103Thomas EdisonAMerican inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.22
346197104Victorian AgeThe term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-centuy society, with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people.23
346197105Free-Trade ImperialismEconomic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one, while maintaing the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century, free-trade imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin AMerican republics, on the one hand, and Great Britain and the United States, on the other.24
346197106Separate SpheresNineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women, especially of the middle class, should have clearly differentiated roles in society; women as wives, mothers,and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics.25
346197107Emmeline PankhurstTh leader of the British women's suffrage movement frequently called attention to her cause by breaking the law to protest discrimination against women.26
346197108Karl MarxGerman journalist and philosopher, founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: Manifesto of the Communist Party and Das Kapital.27
346197109SocialismA political ideology that originated in Europe in the 1830s. Socialists advocated government protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and government ownership of industries. This ideology led to the founding of labor parties throughout Europe in the second half of the 19th Century.28
346197110AnarchistsRevolutionaries who wanted to abolish all private property and governments, usually by violence, and replace them with free associations of groups.29
346197111LiberalismA political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property. This ideology, derived from the Enlightenment, was especially popular among the property-owning middle classes Europe and North America.30
346197112Giuseppe GaribaldiItalian nationalist and revolutionary who conquered Sicily and Naples and added them to a unified Italy in 1860.31
346197113Otto von BismarckChancellor of Prussia from 1862 to 1871, when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist, he led Prussia to victory against Austria and France and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire in 1871.32
346197114Meiji RestorationThe political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism.33
346197115Yamagata AritomoOne of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration.34
346197116Suez CanalShip canal dug across the isthmus in Egypt, designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.35
346197117Battle of OmdurmanBritish victory over the Mahdi in the Sudan in 1898. General Kitchener led a mixed force of British and Egyptian troops armed with rapid firing rifles and machine guns.36
346197118Henry Morton StanleyBritish-American explorer of Africa, famous for his expeditions in search of Dr. David Livingstone. Stanley helped King Leopold II establish the Congo Free State.37
346197119Berlin ConferenceConference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free Sate under King Leopold II of Belgium.38
346197120Cecil RhodesBritish entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia were named after him.39

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