8405238256 | Mataram | Kingdom that controlled the interior regions of Java in 17th Century; Dutch East India Company paid tribute | 0 | |
8405238257 | Sepoys | Troops that served the British East India Company; recruited mainly from various warlike peoples of India | 1 | |
8405238258 | British Raj | British political establishment in India; developed as a result of the rivalry between France and Britain in India | 2 | |
8405238259 | Battle of Plassey | Battle in 1757 between troops of the British East India Company and an Indian Army under the ruler of Bengal; Marked the rise of the British control over Northern India | 3 | |
8405238260 | Robert Clive | Architect of the British Victory at Plassey; established the British Raj in northern India | 4 | |
8405308317 | Presidencies | Three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India (Madras, Calcutta, Bombay) | 5 | |
8405308318 | Princely States | Domains of Indian princes allied with the British Raj; made up of 1/3rd of the British Indian Empire | 6 | |
8405308319 | Nabobs | Name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation | 7 | |
8405340082 | Lord Charles Cornwallis | Reformer of the East India Compay administration of India in the 1790s; checked widespread corruption; reduced power of the British Raj | 8 | |
8405385376 | Ram Mohun Roy | Western educated Indian leader; cooperated with the British to outlaw sati | 9 | |
8405440336 | Isandhlwana | Location of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in South Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one of the few victories of African forces | 10 | |
8405440337 | Tropical dependencies | Colonies with substantial indigenous population tht are ruled by small European political and military minorities with the assistance of colonized bureaucrats, soldiers, clerks, and servants | 11 | |
8405506630 | Settlement colonies | Areas conquered by European invaders and settled by large numbers of European migrants who made colonized areas permanent homes and dispersed and decimated the indigenous people | 12 | |
8405530845 | White Dominions | Colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population; native population is reduced by disease and wars of conquest | 13 | |
8405573578 | White Racial Supremacy | Belief in the inherent mental and moral and cultural superiority of whites; peaked in acceptance in decades before WWI; supported by social darwinists | 14 | |
8405629452 | Natal | British colony in South Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost at Durban | 15 | |
8405757335 | Boer Republics | Transvaal and Orange Free State in Southern Africa; established to assert independence of Boers from British Colonial government | 16 | |
8405757336 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa around 1900; manipulated the political situation in South Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer Republics | 17 | |
8405757337 | Anglo-Boer War | Fought over the continued Independence of Boer republics; resulted in a British Victory but began the process of decolonization for whites in South Africa | 18 | |
8405757338 | Captain James Cook | Made voyages in Hawaii resulting in opening of islands to the west; convinced Kamehameha to establish unified Kingdoms in the islands | 19 |
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