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| 147065324 | Cecil Rhodes | Born in 1853, played a major political and economic role in colonial South Africa. He was a financier, statesman, and empire builder with a philosophy of mystical imperialism. | 0 | |
| 147065325 | Rudyard Kipling | (1864-1936) English writer and poet; defined the "white man's burden" as the duty of European and Euro-American peoples to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands | 1 | |
| 147065326 | Leopold II | (reigned 1865-1909) King of Belgium who employed Henry Morton Stanley to help develop commercial ventures and establish a colony called the Congo Free State in the basin of the Congo River | 2 | |
| 147065327 | Queen Victoria | British Queen, under whose rule the British empire reached the height of its wealth and power, forced to accept a new, virtually powerless role after the Chartist movement | 3 | |
| 147065328 | Queen Lili'uokalani | last queen of Hawaii; reigned 1891-1893; this queen was overthrown in 1893 by a group of planters and businesspeople who invited US to annex Hawaii (Grover Cleveland opposed it; finally done by William McKinley in 1898) | 4 | |
| 147065329 | Theodore Roosevelt | 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War | 5 | |
| 147065330 | Charles Darwin | English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands, and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution. | 6 | |
| 147065331 | Ram Mohan Ray | called the "father of modern India"; among rhe most influential Indian elite; supported some British colonial policies | 7 | |
| 147065332 | Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. | 8 | |
| 147065333 | Battle of Omdurman | British victory over the Mahdi in the Sudan in 1898. General Kitchener led a mixed force of British and Egyptian troops armed with rapid-firing rifles and machine guns. | 9 | |
| 147065334 | Suez Canal | Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt, designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882. | 10 | |
| 147065335 | Panama Canal | Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States Army engineers; it opened in 1915. It greatly shortened the sea voyage between the east and west coasts of North America. The United States turned the canal over to Panama on Jan 1, 2000 | 11 | |
| 147065336 | Sepoys | Troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India. | 12 | |
| 147065337 | Sepoy Rebellion | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. | 13 | |
| 147065338 | Boer | a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans | 14 | |
| 147065339 | Great Trek | Movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony of southern Africa to escape influence of British colonial government in 1834; led to settlement of regions north of Orange River and Natal. | 15 | |
| 147065340 | Berlin Conference | Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium. | 16 | |
| 147065341 | Maori | A member of a Polynesian group that settled New Zealand about 800 C.E., an ethnic minority speaking Maori and living in New Zealand | 17 | |
| 147065342 | Maji Maji Rebellion | In west Africa villagers believed that magic water (maji-maji) sprinkled on their bodies would cause the German bullets to turn to water when in struck them. During the rebellion fighters armed with spears attacked the Germans. They were slaughter. 26,000 died. Twice that many died in the famine immediately following massacre. | 18 | |
| 147065343 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | 19 | |
| 147065344 | Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. | 20 |
