3995586646 | 1. Boer War | the name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in Africa | 0 | |
3995586647 | 2. Captain James Cook | made voyages to Hawaii from 1777-1779 resulting in openings of islands to the West; convinced Kamehameha to establish a unified kingdom in the islands | 1 | |
3995586648 | 3. Partition | a division of property among joint owners or tenants in common or a sale of such property followed by a division of the proceeds | 2 | |
3995586649 | 4. Contested settler colonies | 3 | ||
3995586650 | 5. Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa around 1900; manipulated political situation in south Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republics; encourages Boer War as means of destroying Boer independence | 4 | |
3995586651 | 6. Impis | the Zulu equivalent to a division in a western army | 5 | |
3995586652 | 7. Ghost Dance | a religious dance of native Americans looking for communication with the dead | 6 | |
3995586653 | 8. Maji Maji | African warriors in German East Africa sprinkled "magic water" on their bodies in hopes it world turn the German bullets into water | 7 | |
3995586654 | 9. Boxer Rebellion | violent movement against non-Chinese commercial, political, religious and technological influence in China during the final years of the 19th century | 8 | |
3995586655 | 10. Great Mahele | Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed western property concepts that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to western commercial interests | 9 | |
3995586656 | 11. Bungalow | a small house with a single story | 10 | |
3995586657 | 12. Hookahs | an Eastern smoking pipe designed with a long tube passing through an urn of water that cools the smoke as it passes through | 11 | |
3995586658 | 13. Isandhlwana | Location of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in South Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one of few victories of African forces over Western Europeans | 12 | |
3995586659 | 14. true colonies | relied more on agriculture and less on extractive pursuits than the French or Spanish colonies; religious toleration increased relatively rapidly; institutions of self- government increased relatively rapidly | 13 | |
3995586660 | 15. white dominions | colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population; small numbers of native inhabitants were typically reduced by disease and wars of conquest; typical of British holdings in North America and Australia with growing independence in the 19th century | 14 | |
3995586661 | 16. James Mill | Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism | 15 | |
3995586662 | 17. Utilitarians | those who hold that an action is right that produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people | 16 | |
3995586663 | 18. Thomas Macaulay | British administrator who brought new school system, wrote "Minute on Education" stating that Indians need to educated in the ways of the British Empire | 17 | |
3995586664 | 19. John Buchau | a doctor and an author who wrote books about Scotland | 18 | |
3995586665 | 20. René Maran | Born in Martinique; author of Batouala- novel that gained massive acclaim; attacked French colonialism and praised African culture | 19 | |
3995586666 | 21. Khoikhoi | any of Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa | 20 | |
3995586667 | 22. Lord Stanley | general who betrayed Richard III, son was kidnapped by Richard to force him to stay loyal but decided to help Richmond | 21 | |
3995586668 | 23. Samory | the founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic state that resisted French rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898 | 22 | |
3995586669 | 24. Ahimadou Sekou | West African leader; held back the European advance for decades | 23 | |
3995586670 | 25. Mataram | Kingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in 17th century; Dutch East India company paid tribute to the kingdom after the 1670's; allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java | 24 | |
3995586671 | 26. Sepoys | troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India | 25 | |
3995586672 | 27. British Raj | British political established in India; developed as a result of the rivalry between France and Britain in India | 26 | |
3995586673 | 28. Methodism | a religion founded by John Wesley; insisted strict self-discipline and a methodical approach to religious study and observance; emphasized an intense personal salvation and a life of thrift, abstinence, and hard work | 27 | |
3995586674 | 29. Evangelicals | fundamentalist Christians who exerted political pressure in the late 1790s and early 1980s; sometimes referred to as the Moral Majority | 28 | |
3995586675 | 30. Jeremy Bentham | creator of Utilitarianism; advocates "the greatest happiness for the greatest number." Used the pain-pleasure litmus test, rather than ideology | 29 | |
3995586676 | 31. Miscegenation | reproduction by parents of different races | 30 | |
3995586677 | 32. White racial supremacy | belief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites; peaked in acceptance in decades before World War I; supported by social science doctrines of social Darwinists | 31 | |
3995586678 | 33. Assegais | a southern African tree having wood used for making spears or lances | 32 | |
3995586679 | 34. Muumuu | a woman's loose unbelted dress | 33 | |
3995586680 | 35. Haoles | the term often used to refer to whites in Hawaii | 34 | |
3995586681 | 36. Nationalists | believe in uniting people who share a common history and culture | 35 | |
3995586682 | 37. Natal | British colony in south Africa; developed after Boer trek north from cape colony; major commercial outpost of Durban | 36 | |
3995586683 | 38. Boer republics | Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa; established to assert independence of Boers from B colonial government in Cape Colony in the 1850's; discovery of diamonds and precious metals caused British migration into Boer areas in 1860's | 37 | |
3995586684 | 39. Rorke's Drift | 1879, 150 welsh engineers hold off 5,000 Zulu warriors | 38 | |
3995586685 | 40. Plassey | battle in 1757 between troops of the British East India Company and an India army under Sirãj ud-duala, ruler of Bengal; British victory resulted in control of northern India | 39 | |
3995586686 | 41. Robert Clive | (1725-1774) Architect of British victory at Plassey in 1757; established foundations of British Raj in northern India (18th century) | 40 | |
3995586687 | 42. Presidencies | three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India; capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay | 41 | |
3995586688 | 43. Prince Kamehameha | fought series of wars backed by British weapons and advisors resulting in unified Hawaiian kingdom by 1810; as king he promoted economic change encouraging Western merchants to establish export trade in Hawaiian goods | 42 | |
3995586689 | 44. Java | a simple platform-independent object-oriented programming language used for writing applets that are downloaded from the World Wide Web by a client and run on the client's machine | 43 | |
3995586690 | 45. Queen Victoria | queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901) | 44 | |
3995586691 | 46. Princely states | domains of Indian princes allied with the British Raj; agents of East India Company were stationed at the rulers courts to ensure compliance; made up over one-third of the British Indian Empire | 45 | |
3995586692 | 47. Nabobs | name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation | 46 | |
3995586693 | 48. Lord Charles Cornwallis | reformer of the East India Company administration of India in the 1790's; reduced power of local British administrators; checked widespread corruption | 47 |
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