Klaw students, please use this set to review the Vocab.
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| 693153657 | Nationalism | The doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other. | |
| 693153658 | "Open Door" Policy for China | In 1899, John Hay (secretary of state) declared it. Gave all nations have equal trade access to trade with China. It wasn't until the Boxer Rebellion that the other countries agreed. | |
| 693153659 | Imperialism | A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries. | |
| 693153660 | Colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. | |
| 693153661 | Settler Colonies | Colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers, rather than simply spending relatively small numbers to exploit the region; particularly noteworthy in the case of the British colonies in North America. | |
| 693153662 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | |
| 693153663 | Wahhabi Islam | Major Islamic movement led by the Muslim theologian Abd al Wahhab (1703-1792) that advocated an austere lifestyle and strict adherence to the sharia or Islamic law. | |
| 693153664 | Marathas | Militant Hindus who formed a breakaway state in the south and waged guerilla warfare against Aurangzeb and the Mughal Empire. | |
| 693153665 | India Revolt of 1857 | Hindus and Muslim sepoys refused to open cartridges that came in paper waxed with animal fat for religious reasons; killed British officers, and proclaimed restoration of the Mughal authority; had different interests, and were crushed by the British. | |
| 693153666 | Boxer Rebellion | A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country. | |
| 693153667 | Taiping Rebellion | The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. | |
| 693153668 | Ghost Dance | A ritual Indians performed to bring back the buffalo, return the Native American tribes to their land, and sweep away all the white settlers. | |
| 693153669 | Xhosa Cattle Killing | 1856-1857; Nongqawuse had a vision that if the Africans killed their animals and crops the invaders would move out; prophecy did not come true and people found themselves destitute; part of the neo-conservaite movements that aim to revive indigenous life in response to European expansion. | |
| 693153670 | Tanzimat Movement | (Ottoman reform movement) Reforms that took place in the Ottoman empire in imperial policy. -- basically declared that all subjects of the Ottoman Empire were guaranteed equal rights (in life, liberty, and property) no matter what religion they were. The movement's attempt was to modernize the Ottoman Empire and try to stop uprisings within the empire. | |
| 693153671 | China's Self-Strengthening Movement | Aimed to update educational system, diplomatic service, military, set up factories, had mixed results. | |
| 693153672 | Indentured Servitude | The system of temporary servitude, where young men and women bound themselves to masters for fixed terms of servitude (four to five years), in exchange for passage to America, food and shelter. This method of labor was one of the largest elements of colonial population in America. | |
| 693153673 | U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act | Passed in 1882; banned Chinese immigration in US for a total of 40 years because the United States thought of them as a threat. Caused Chinese population in America to decrease. | |
| 693153674 | 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. | |
| 693153675 | Opium Wars | War between Great Britain and China, began as a conflict over the opium trade, ended with the Chinese treaty to the British- the opening of 5 chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges. | |
| 693153676 | Unequal Treaties | Treaties between China and the Western powers after the Opium War that vastly favored the Western powers. | |
| 693153677 | 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. | |
| 693153678 | Apartheid | A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites. | |
| 693153679 | Tribalism | A situation in which people feel greater allegiance and loyalty to their own ethnic group than to a state as a whole. | |
| 693153680 | Berlin Conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa. | |
| 693153681 | Young Turks | Group of revolutionary and nationalistic Turks who revolted against Ottoman empire in 1908 attempting to make reforms and then sided with the central powers in WWI | |
| 693153682 | Boer War | When the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881). | |
| 693153683 | Zulu State | Shaka Zulu made/initiated many military, social, cultural and political reforms, forming a well-organized and centralized state. | |
| 693153684 | Aborigines | The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country. | |
| 693153685 | Maori | The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand. | |
| 693153686 | Ambergris | Waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore. | |
| 693153687 | White Australia Policy | After a flood of immigrants entered the country in the mid-1800s, laws were passed to allow only whites to immigrate. Ideas of racial superiority also led to brutal violence against native peoples. This antagonized many nations particularly those in Asia. |
