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9085262980Africanization of ChristianityAfrican customs merged with Christianity to be more appealing and to involve more mystical practices0
9085271094apartheidthe former policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa1
9085274175Edward Blydenwas an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician primarily in Liberia. West African scholar who believed each civilization was able to contribute something to society2
9085308845cash-crop agriculture- specializing crops - popular in Southern plantations - included tobacco and cotton3
9085556262colonial racismA pattern of European racism in Asian and African colonies, creating racial divides, and limited native access to education and the civil service system because of notions of racial superiority4
9085574422colonial tribalisma European tendency, especially in African colonies, to identify and sometimes invent distinct "tribes" that had often not existed before, reinforcing European notions that African societies were primitive5
9085574423Congo Free State/Leopold IILeopold II was king of Belgium from 1865-1909; his rule as private owner of the Congo Free State during much of that time is typically held up as the worst abuse of Europe's second wave of colonization, resulting as it did in millions of death6
9085574424cultivation systemforced labor to grow cash crops to pay taxes used in the Netherlands East Indies in 19th century7
9085574425Indian Rebellion, 1857-1858Massive uprising of much of India against British rule8
9085574426informal empiresAreas dominated by Western powers but retained their own governments9
9085574427invention of traditionin many colonial states, a process of forging new ways of belonging and self-identification that defined and to some extent mythologized the region's past, especially to create broader terms of belonging than had existed before10
9085574428scramble for AfricaCompetition between European countries to imperialize/claim land and its natural resources in Africa11
9085574430Western-educated elitethe main beneficiaries in asian and african land colonized by western power language, schooled in the imperial power's language and practices, they moved into their country's professional classes but ultimately led anti colonial movements as they grew discouraged by their inability to win equal status to the colonizers12
9085574429Swami Vivekanandaleading religious figure of the 19th century India; advocate of a revived Hinduism and its mission to reach out to the spiritually impoverished West13

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