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| 7391883914 | Africanization of Christianity | Process that occurred in non-Muslim Africa, where millions who were converted to Christianity sought to maintain older traditions alongside new Christian ideas; many converts continued using protective charms and medicines and consulting local medicine men, and many continued to believe in their old gods and spirits. | 0 | |
| 7391883915 | Edward Blyden | Prominent West African scholar and political leader (1832-1912) who argued that each civilization, including that of Africa, has its own unique contribution to make to the world. | 1 | |
| 7391883916 | cash-crop agriculture | Agricultural production, often on a large scale, of crops for sale in the market, rather than for consumption by the farmers themselves. | 2 | |
| 7391883917 | Congo Free State/Leopold II | 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 deaths. | 3 | |
| 7391883918 | Cultivation System | System of forced labor used in the Netherlands East Indies in the nineteenth century; peasants were required to cultivate at least 20 percent of their land in cash crops, such as sugar or coffee, for sale at low and fixed prices to government contractors, who then earned enormous profits from further sale of the crops. | 4 | |
| 7391883919 | European Racism | A new kind of racism that emerged in the nineteenth century that increasingly used the prestige and apparatus of science to support European racial prejudices and preferences. | 5 | |
| 7391883920 | Indian Rebellion, 1857-1858 | Massive uprising of much of India against British rule; also called the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoy Mutiny from the fact that the rebellion first broke out among Indian troops in British employ. | 6 | |
| 7391883921 | Scramble for Africa | Name used for the process of the European countries' partition of the continent of Africa between themselves in the period 1875-1900. | 7 | |
| 7391883922 | Swami Vivekananda | Leading religious figure of nineteenth-century India (1863-1902); advocate of a revived Hinduism and its mission to reach out to the spiritually impoverished West. | 8 | |
| 7391883923 | Wanjiku | A member of the Gikuyu people of East Africa (1910-?), she witnessed almost the entire twentieth century experiencing British colonialism, the coming of Christianity, the Mau Mau rebellion, the independence of Kenya in 1963, and the challenges of modernization that followed. | 9 | |
| 7391883924 | Western-Education Elite | The main beneficiaries in Asian and African lands colonized by Western powers; schooled in the imperial power's language and practices, they moved into their country's professional classes but ultimately led anticolonial movements as they grew discouraged by their inability to win status equal to the colonizers. | 10 |
