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| 3455443699 | British East India Company | a joint-stock company granted a royal charter by Elizabeth I in 1600 for the purpose of controlling trade in India | 0 | |
| 3455443700 | Sepoy Mutiny | (1857-1858) a rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India | 1 | |
| 3455445747 | Raj | the British rule of India from 1757 until 1947 | 2 | |
| 3455445748 | Indian National Congress | a major political party in India; founded in 1885 to press for greater rights for Indians under British rule, it later became one of the main forces calling for Indian independence | 3 | |
| 3455449975 | Muslim League | political group founded in 1906 to protect the rights of Indian Muslims; it later became one of the main forces calling for India independence and a separate nation for Indian Muslims | 4 | |
| 3455449976 | unequal treaties | trade treaties that China signed under pressure of invasion; gave Western powers trade benefits | 5 | |
| 3455456419 | extraterritoriality | the right of citizens to be tried in the courts of their native country rather than in the courts of the country that they are living in | 6 | |
| 3455458825 | Taiping Rebellion | (1850-1864) revolt against the Qing dynasty in China led by Hong Xiuquan, a convert to Christianity; over 20 million Chinese died; eventually suppressed with British and French aid | 7 | |
| 3455458826 | Boxer Rebellion | (1900) a siege of a foreign settlement in Beijing by Chinese nationalist who were angry at foreign involvement in China | 8 | |
| 3455462741 | Sun Yixian | Chinese statesman and revolutionary leader; he believed that China should be a democracy but that it first needed to replace the Qing dynasty with a ruling nationalist party. He founded the Revolutionary Alliance in 1905 | 9 | |
| 3455465523 | Treaty of Kanagawa | (1854) trade treaty between Japan and the United States opening up two Japanese ports to US trade; signed in response to a show of force by US admiral Matthew Perry | 10 | |
| 3455465548 | Emperor Meiji | Emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912; he restored imperial rule to Japan and, with the help of samurais, pushed for many reforms in Japan | 11 | |
| 3455473928 | Sino-Japanese War | (1894) war fought between China and Japan for influence over Korea; Japan's victory symbolized its successful moderinazation | 12 | |
| 3455473929 | Social Darwinism | an application of Charles Darwin's scientific theories of natural selection and the survival of the fittest to the struggle between nations and races; used in the late 1800s to justify imperialism and racism | 13 | |
| 3455478413 | Cecil Rhodes | British imperialist and business magnate; he was one of the foremost advocates of expanding the British Empire and was a strong believer in the superiority of the "Anglo-Saxon" race | 14 | |
| 3455478414 | Suez Canal | Egyptian waterway connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas; built in 1869 by Franco-Egyptian company; in 1875 Britain bought Egypt's share in the canal | 15 | |
| 3455480239 | Berlin Conference | (1884-1885) a meeting at which representatives from European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa | 16 | |
| 3455480240 | Leopold II | King of Belgium from 1865 to 1909; he financed an expedition to the Congo and assumed the title of sovereign of the Congo Free State. His armies treated the Congolese brutally and exploited them as workers. | 17 | |
| 3455482869 | Shaka | Founder of the Zulu Empire; he reorganized the army and introduced new fighting tactics. He subdued neighboring peoples, consolidating an empire and encompassed most of southern Africa. | 18 | |
| 3455485925 | Menelik II | Emperor of Ethiopia after 1889; he gained Ethiopian independence from Italy in 1896 | 19 | |
| 3455488739 | Antonio López de Santa Anna | Mexican general, president, and dictator; he fought in the Texas Revolution and seized the Alamo but was defeated and captured by Sam Houston at San Jacinto | 20 | |
| 3455497054 | Porfirio Díaz | Mexican general and politician; president and dictator of Mexico for 30 years, he sought foreign investment but ruled harshly | 21 | |
| 3455502212 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary; he led the revolt against Porfirio Díaz in the south of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution | 22 | |
| 3455504431 | Venustiano Carranza | Mexican revolutionist and politician; he led forces against Vitoriano Huerta during the Mexican Revolution | 23 | |
| 3455504432 | José Martí | Cuban writer and independence fighter; he was killed in battle but became a symbol of Cuba's fight for freedom | 24 | |
| 3455513436 | Spanish-American War | (1898) war fought between Spain and the United States that began after the sinking of the battleship USS Maine; the United States won the war in four months, gaining control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines | 25 | |
| 3455515563 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Self-proclaimed president of the new Philippine Republic in 1899; he fought for Filipino independence from the United States | 26 | |
| 3455528988 | Roosevelt Corollary | (1904) a policy proposed by US president Theodore Roosevelt as an addition, or corollary, to the Monroe Doctrine; it pledged to use US military force to prevent European interference in the internal affairs of Latin American nations while reserving for the United States the right to intervene | 27 |
