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| 5798410079 | Battle at Plassey | fight between the troops of the British East India company and an Indian army; British victory gave them control of North East India | 0 | |
| 5798410080 | Berlin conference | conference that German Chancellor otto von Bismarck called to set rules for partition of Africa | 1 | |
| 5798410081 | boers | Dutch settlers in Cape colony in southern Africa | 2 | |
| 5798410082 | boer war | fought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of boer republics; resulted in British victory, but began the process of decolonization in southern Africa | 3 | |
| 5798410083 | Captain James Cook | made voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 resulting in opening of islands to the west; convinced kamehamend to establish unified kingdom in the islands | 4 | |
| 5798410084 | Cecile Rhodes | British entrepreneur in southern Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the boer republics | 5 | |
| 5798415934 | great mahele | the hawaiian land redistribution proposed by king kamehamena iii in the 1830s and enacted in 1848 | 6 | |
| 5798415935 | Great trek | movement of boer settlers in cape colony of southern Africa to receive influence of British colonial government in 1834; lead to settlement of regions north of orange river and natal | 7 | |
| 5798415936 | Robert Clive | architect a British victory at Plassey; established foundations of British Raj in northern India 18th century | 8 | |
| 5798415937 | scramble for Africa | sudden wave of conquest in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s, Britain obtained most of eastern Africa, France most of northwestern Africa | 9 | |
| 5798418804 | sepoys | troops that serve the British East India Company; recruited from various were like peoples of India | 10 | |
| 5798418805 | settler 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 | 11 | |
| 5798418806 | social Darwinism | survival of the fittest Europeans right to imperialized because they were stronger | 12 | |
| 5798418807 | tropical dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa Asia and the South Pacific or small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations | 13 | |
| 5798418808 | White man's burden | europeans have a duty to civilize less developed areas because they were stronger | 14 |
