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| 2518046418 | Mataram | Kingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in the 17th century, Dutch East India Company paid tribute to the kingdom for rights of trade at Batavia, weakness of kingdom after the 1670s allowed the Dutch to exert control over all of Java | 0 | |
| 2518046419 | sepoys | Troops that served the British East India Company, recruited from various warlike peoples of India | 1 | |
| 2518046420 | British Raj | British political establishment in India, developed as a result of the rivalry between France and Britain in India | 2 | |
| 2518046421 | Plassey | Battle in 1757 between the troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj ud-daula, ruler of Bengal, British victory resulted in control of northern India | 3 | |
| 2518046422 | Robert Clive | Architect of British victory at Plassey in 1757, established foundations of British Raj in northern India, lived 1725-1774 | 4 | |
| 2518046423 | presidencies | Three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India, capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay | 5 | |
| 2518046424 | princely states | Domains of Indian princes allied with the British Raj, agents of the East India Company were stationed at the rulers' courts to ensure compliance, made up over 1/3 of the British Indian Empire | 6 | |
| 2518046425 | nabobs | Name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation | 7 | |
| 2518046426 | Lord Charles Cornwallis | Reformer of the East India Company administration of India in the 1790s, reduced power of local British administrators, checked widespread corruption | 8 | |
| 2518046427 | Ram Mohun Roy | Western- educated Indian leader in the early 19th century, cooperated with British to outlaw sati | 9 | |
| 2518046428 | 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 Europe | 10 | |
| 2518046429 | tropical dependencies | The greater portion of the European empires consisting of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large populations of non-Western peoples | 11 | |
| 2518046430 | settlement colonies | Areas, such as North America and Australia, that were both conquered by European invaders and settled by large numbers of European migrants who made the colonized areas their permanent home and dispersed and decimated the indigenous inhabitants | 12 | |
| 2518046431 | 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 | 13 | |
| 2518046432 | 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 such as Herbert Spencer | 14 | |
| 2518046433 | Natal | British colony in south Africa,developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony, major commercial outpost at Durban | 15 | |
| 2518046434 | Boer Republics | Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa, established to assert independence of Boers from British colonial government in Cape Colony in the 1850s, discover of diamonds and precious metals caused British migration into the Boer area in the 1860s | 16 | |
| 2518046435 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in south Africa around 1900, manipulated political situation in south Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republics, encouraged Boer War as means of destroying Boer independence | 17 | |
| 2518046436 | Anglo-Boer War | Fought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics, resulted in British victory, but began the process of decolonization for whites in South Africa | 18 | |
| 2518046437 | Captain James Cook | Made voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 resulting in opening of islands to the West, convinced Kamehameha to establish a unified kingdom in the islands | 19 |
