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| 2314750134 | Phoenicians | A maritime civilization of the Mediterranean that developed extensive trade and communication networks as well as an early alphabetical script (1500 B.C.E). they were also considered the carriers of civilizations and the first sea barring civilization through the Mediterranean sea | 0 | |
| 2314760985 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion in the 19th century. | 1 | |
| 2314774819 | origin of cash crops | A crop grown for direct sale, and not for use in a region, such as coffee, tea, and sugar in Africa but farm crop raised to be sold for money | 2 | |
| 2314798211 | white dominion | A type of settlement colony, such as those in north America and Australia, where European settlers made up the majority of the population | 3 | |
| 2314801567 | 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. | 4 | |
| 2315116723 | imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially. This led to the creation of a number of European empires which extended around the world. -the theory or Darwin who said it was white man's burden to go out and colonize | 5 | |
| 2315120240 | nationalism | A sense of unity binding the people of a state together; devotion to the interests of a particular country or nation, an identification with the state and an acceptance of national goals. | 6 | |
| 2315123853 | tanzimat reforms | Series of reforms in the Ottoman Empire between 1839 and 1876; established Western-style universities, state postal system, railways, extensive legal reforms; resulted in creation of new constitution in 1876 | 7 | |
| 2315128618 | young turks | A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It was against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and instead favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. | 8 | |
| 2315133395 | young ottomans | Movement of young intellectuals to institute liberal reforms and build a feeling of national identity in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century. | 9 | |
| 2315140403 | 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. Europeans rapidly industrialize because of this. | 10 | |
| 2315148643 | Sepoy mutiny | The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the British East India Company. | 11 | |
| 2315161463 | box rebellion | 1900 group of poor people that practiced magic, hated foreigners, and trained in shadow boxing fought unsuccessfully against all imperialism in China- secret chinese society that tried to rid China of these foreign devils set up by the Spheres of Influence but was put down by the western nations in Europe | 12 | |
| 2315176732 | sino | Japanese war | 13 | |
| 2315188620 | Roman empire | (Hadriens) wall was used to control city borders and to protect its people an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern or Byzantine Empire | 14 | |
| 2315205121 | sulton | Military and political leader with absolute authority over a Muslim country. a ottoman ruler, "Hold of Power". | 15 | |
| 2315211639 | seilm | Began the down fall of the ottoman empire (1789-1807) | 16 | |
| 2315217964 | Ottoman empire | Centered in Constantinople, the Turkish imperial state that conquered large amounts of land in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans, and fell after World War I. -Turks borrow military technology successfully | 17 | |
| 2315226694 | Matthew Perry | A commodore in the American navy. He forced Japan into opening its doors to trade, thus bringing western influence to Japan while showing American might. | 18 | |
| 2315228996 | Marco Pollo | Explorer who told fascinating stories of the riches he found in Asia who spent 17 yrs. working for the Chinese emperor Kublai Khan. | 19 | |
| 2315241343 | Ibn Battuta | (1304-1369) Morrocan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. His writings gave a glimpse into the world of that time period. | 20 | |
| 2315257997 | Taiping uprising | different from rest of China's uprisings because its program included abolition of private property | 21 | |
| 2315274432 | China was becoming... | carved up like a melon | 22 |
