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| 338124444 | Shaka Zulu | Military genius that established Zulu Kingdom and conquered many kingdoms in Southern Africa. | 0 | |
| 338124445 | Sokoto Caliphate | A large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria. | 1 | |
| 338124446 | Modernization | The process of reforming political, military, economic, social, and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies, often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies. | 2 | |
| 338124447 | Muhammad Ali | (1769-1849) Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor, but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952. | 3 | |
| 338124448 | Ismail | Muhammad Ali's grandson who famously declared "My country is no longer in Africa, it is in Europe." He also brought lots of reforms to Egypt during his rule. | 4 | |
| 338124449 | Legitimate Trade | Exports from Africa in the nineteenth century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade. | 5 | |
| 338124450 | Recaptives | Africans rescued by Britain's Royal Navy from the illegal slave trade of the nineteenth century and restored to free status. | 6 | |
| 338124451 | Tippu Tip | Trader from Zanzibar who built the largest personal empire. | 7 | |
| 338124452 | Nawab | A Muslim prince allied to British India; technically, a semi-autonomous deputy of the Mughal emperor. | 8 | |
| 338124453 | Sepoy Rebellion | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs. | 9 | |
| 338124454 | British Raj | The rule over much of South Asia between 1765 and 1947 by the East India Company and then by a British government. | 10 | |
| 338124455 | Durbar | An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century, ostensibly in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire. | 11 | |
| 338124456 | Menelik | Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896). | 12 | |
| 338124457 | Panama Canal | Ship canal cut across the isthmus of ______ by United States Army engineers; it opened in 1914. It greatly shortened the sea voyage between the east and west coasts of North America. The United States turned the canal over to _______ on January 1, 2000. | 13 | |
| 338124458 | Rammohun Roy | A Western-educated Bengali from a Brahmin family that was one of the first promoters of Pan-Indian nationalism. | 14 | |
| 338124459 | Afrikaners | South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. | 15 | |
| 338124460 | Great Trek | A migration by the Afrikaners away from the British rule over Cape Colony. | 16 | |
| 338124461 | Maori | A group of people that lived in New Zealand. Their population declined rapidly after settlers began to settle down in that area and Australia. | 17 | |
| 338124462 | Matthew Perry | A navy commander who, on July 8, 1853, became the first foreigner to break through the barriers that had kept Japan isolated from the rest of the world for 250 years. | 18 | |
| 338124463 | Railroads | Form of transportation that connects lots of places starting in the 1870s. The British were the first to utilize this method of transportation. | 19 | |
| 338124464 | Steel | A form of iron that is both durable and flexible. It was first mass-produced in the 1860s and quickly became the most widely used metal in construction, machinery, and railroad equipment. | 20 | |
| 338124465 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Leader of a secret society who rose in revolt, and proclaimed a republic in 1899. | 21 | |
| 338124466 | Thomas Edison | American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. | 22 | |
| 338124467 | Victorian Age | The reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (r. 1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society, with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people. | 23 | |
| 338124468 | Free-Trade Imperialism | A form of economic dependence which saved countries from annexation and instead led to manipulation by industrial powers. | 24 | |
| 338124469 | Separate Spheres | Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women, especially of the middle class, should have clearly differentiated roles in society: women as wives, mothers, and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics. | 25 | |
| 338124470 | Emmeline Pankhurst | Leader of British Women's suffrage. | 26 | |
| 338124471 | Karl Marx | German journalist and philosopher, founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III, 1867-1894). | 27 | |
| 338124472 | Socialism | A political ideology that originated in Europe in the 1830s. Followers advocated government protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and government ownership of industries. This ideology led to the founding of labor parties throughout Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. | 28 | |
| 338124473 | Anarchists | Revolutionaries who wanted to abolish all private property and governments, usually by violence, and replace them with free associations of groups. | 29 | |
| 338124474 | Liberalism | A political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property. This ideology, derived from the Enlightenment, was especially popular among the property-owning middle classes of Europe and North America. | 30 | |
| 338124475 | Guiseppe Garibaldi | Italian nationalist and revolutionary who conquered Sicily and Naples and added them to a unified Italy in 1860. | 31 | |
| 338124476 | Otto von Bismarck | Chancellor (prime minister) of Prussia from 1862 until 1871, when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist, he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire in 1871. | 32 | |
| 338124477 | Meiji Restoration | The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism. | 33 | |
| 338124478 | Yamagata Aritomo | Choshu leader who with Ito Hirobumi decided to join forces with the Satsuma, and rebel against the Shogunate. | 34 | |
| 338124479 | 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. | 35 | |
| 338124480 | 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. | 36 | |
| 338124481 | Henry Morton Stanley | British-American explorer of Africa, famous for his expeditions in search of Dr. David Livingstone. Stanley helped King Leopold II establish the Congo Free State. | 37 | |
| 338124482 | 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. | 38 | |
| 338124483 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. | 39 |
