5992729989 | Great Game | The Russian-British rivalry for power in Central Asia | 0 | |
5992729990 | Imperialism | A country gaining colonies and influence in other places | 1 | |
5992729991 | Scramble for Africa | European countries took over most of Africa | 2 | |
5992730892 | Sepoys | Indian soldiers under British employ | 3 | |
5992730893 | Sepoy Mutiny | A sepoy rebellion over Britain making sepoys violate their religion; British soldiers ended it and India became a full colony | 4 | |
5992730894 | Raj | The colonial government of India | 5 | |
5992731900 | King Leopold II | Belgian king who took over Congo | 6 | |
5992731901 | Congo Free State | The Congo colony | 7 | |
5992733039 | Berlin Conference | A conference that set rules for establishing colonies in Africa; led to Europian countries taking over almost all of Africa | 8 | |
5992733040 | Abyssinia and Liberia | The only countries in Africa not taken over | 9 | |
5992733957 | Zulu Kingdom | Kingdom on the South African coast of the Indian Ocean | 10 | |
5992733958 | Anglo-Zulu War | War between the Zulus and British; the British eventually won | 11 | |
5992734672 | Boer Wars | Fight between the British and the Afrikaners | 12 | |
5992735478 | Roosevelt Corollary | Stated that if countries in Latin America demonstrated instability, the US would feel free to intervene | 13 | |
5992736601 | Indian National Congress | Indian forum that began to rival Congress | 14 | |
5992736602 | Pan-Africanism | A developed sense of shared identity and nationalism from Western-educated Africans | 15 | |
5992737722 | Export Economics | Colonies that produced goods but sent them to mother countries to sell for a profit | 16 | |
5992737723 | Cash Crops | Profitable crops such as tea, cotton, sugar, palm oil, rubber, and coffee | 17 | |
5992737724 | Tea | A cash crop that was introduced from China to Europe and became a profitable crop for the British | 18 | |
5992738616 | Cecil Rhodes | Founder of De Beers Diamonds; investor in a railroad that would go from South Africa to Egypt to connect the British colonies in Africa | 19 | |
5992738617 | Goa | Portuguese trading post in India | 20 | |
5992738618 | Pondicherry | City owned by France in India | 21 | |
5992739784 | Corvee Laborers | Unpaid labor a certain number of days each year | 22 | |
5992740714 | Indentured Servants | People who agreed to work for a period of years in exchange for transportation to a place | 23 | |
5992740715 | Penal Colony | A colony used to excite convicts to; Australia became one | 24 | |
5992741439 | Monocultures | A lack of agricultural diversity; badly damaged African soil | 25 | |
5992741440 | Quinine | Medicine that treats the tropical disease malaria | 26 | |
5992742210 | Suez Canal | A canal through Egypt built by the French; shortened the route from Europe to Asia | 27 | |
5992742211 | Charles Darwin | Came up with the theory of natural selection | 28 | |
5992743178 | Phrenologists | People who studied skull sizes and shapes; claimed Asian, Africans, and Native Americans were less intelligent | 29 | |
5992743179 | Social Darwinism | Belief that survival of the fittest meant that whites were superior; came up by Herbert Spencer | 30 | |
5992745475 | David Livingstone | Christian missionary that went to Sub-Saharan Africa and tried toe end the illegal slave trade | 31 | |
5992745476 | Afrikaners | Descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa | 32 | |
5992746394 | Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement | Event where the Xhosa killed all of their cattle and crops in the belief that it would cause the British to leave; caused a famine | 33 | |
5992746395 | Concentration Camps | Refugee camps that were segregated by race | 34 | |
5992746396 | Aborigines and Maori | Natives of Australia and New Zealand; most were killed due to disease | 35 | |
5992747524 | White Australia Policy | Restricted the immigration of nonwhites to Australia | 36 |
AP World History- Unit 5 Global Links and Imperialism Flashcards
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