Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS
343241792 | Kingdom of Mataram | controlled most of interior Java in the 17th century; weakness of the state after the 1670s allowed the Dutch to expand their control over all of Java | 0 | |
343241793 | sepoys | Indian troops, trained in European style, serving the French and British | 1 | |
343241794 | Raj | the British political establishment in India | 2 | |
343241795 | Plassey (1757) | battle between the troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj-ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory gave them control of northeast India | 3 | |
343241796 | Robert Clive | architect of British victory at Plassey; established foundations of the Raj in northern India | 4 | |
343241797 | Presidencies | three districts that comprised the bulk of British ruled territories in India during the 19th century; capitals at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay | 5 | |
343241798 | Princely States | ruled by Indian princes allied with the Raj; agents of the East India Company were stationed at their courts to ensure loyalty | 6 | |
343241799 | nabobs | name given to Britons who went to india to make fortunes through graft and exploitation; returned to Britain to live richly | 7 | |
343241800 | Charles Cornwallis | British official who reformed East India Company corruption during the 1790s | 8 | |
343241801 | Isandhlwana (1879) | Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th-century European armies | 9 | |
343241802 | tropical dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations | 10 | |
343241803 | White Dominions | a type of settlement colony - as in North America and Australia - where European settlers made up the majority of the population | 11 | |
343241804 | settler colonies | colonies - as South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Kenya, and Hawaii - where minority European populations lived among majority indigenous peoples | 12 | |
343241805 | white racial supremacy | belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before World War I | 13 | |
343241806 | Great Trek | migration into the South African interior of thousands of Afrikaners seeking to escape British control | 14 | |
343241807 | Boer republics | independent states - the Orange Free State and Transvaal - established during the 1850s in the South African interior by Afrikaners | 15 | |
343241808 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the Boer republics | 16 | |
343241809 | Boer War (1899-1902) | fought between the British and Afrikaners; British victory and post-war policies left African population of South Africa under Afrikaner control | 17 | |
343241810 | James Cook | his voyages to Hawaii from 1777-1779 opened the islands to the West | 18 | |
343241811 | Kamehameha | Hawaiian prince; with British backing he created a unified kingdom by 1810; promoted the entry of Western ideas in commerce and social relations | 19 | |
343241812 | Great Mahele | Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed Western property concepts that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to Western commercial interests | 20 |