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| 6063217698 | Mataram | Kingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in the 17th century; Dutch East India Co. paid tribute to the kingdom for the rights of trade at Batavia; weakness of kingdom after 1670s allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java. | 0 | |
| 6063217699 | Sepoys. | Troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India. | 1 | |
| 6063217700 | British Raj | British political establishment in India; developed as a result of the rivalry between France and Britain in India. | 2 | |
| 6063217701 | Plassey | Battle in 1757 between troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory resulted in control of northern India. | 3 | |
| 6063217702 | Robert Clive | (1725-1774) Architect of British victory at Plassey in 1757; established foundations of British Raj in northern India (18th century). | 4 | |
| 6063217703 | Presidencies | Three districts that made up the bulk of directly ruled British territories in India; capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay. | 5 | |
| 6063217704 | Princely states | Domains of Indian princes allied with the British Raj; agents of East India Company were stationed at the rulers' courts to ensure compliance; made up over ⅓ od British Indian Empire. | 6 | |
| 6063217705 | Nabobs | Name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation. | 7 | |
| 6063217706 | Charles Cornwallis | Reformer of the East India Company administration of India in the 1790s; reduced power of local British administration; checked widespread corruption. | 8 | |
| 6063217707 | Ram Mohun Roy | Western educated India leader; cooperated with British to outlaw sati. | 9 | |
| 6063217708 | Isandhlwana | Location of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in south Africa; resulted in defeat of the British; one of the few victories of African forces over Western Europeans. | 10 | |
| 6063217709 | Tropical dependencies | The greater portion of the European empires consisting of Africa, Asia, and the south Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large populations of large Western people. | 11 | |
| 6063217710 | White Dominions | Colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population; small numbers of native inhabitants were typically reduced by disease and wars of conquest; typical of British holdings in North America and Australia with growing independence in the 19th century. | 12 | |
| 6063217711 | Settlement 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 the indigenous inhabitants. | 13 | |
| 6063217712 | White racial supremacy | Belief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites; peaked in acceptance in decades before WWI; supported by social science doctrines of social Darwinists such as Herbert Spencer. | 14 | |
| 6063217713 | Boer Republics | Transvaal and Orange Free State in Southern Africa; established to assert independence of Boers from British colonial government in Cape Colony in the 1850s; discovery of diamonds and precious metals caused British migration into Boer areas in 1860s. | 15 | |
| 6063217714 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa around 1900; manipulated political situation in south Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republics; encouraged Boer war as means of destroying Boer independence. | 16 | |
| 6063217715 | Anglo-Boer War | Fought between 1899-1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics; resulted in British victory, but began process of decolonization for whites in South Africa. | 17 | |
| 6063217716 | Captain James Cook | Captain James Cook- Made voyages to Hawaii from 1777-1779 resulting in opening of islands to the West; convinced Kamehameha to establish unified kingdom in islands. | 18 | |
| 6063217717 | Natal | British colony in South Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost at Durban. | 19 |
