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| 8403956918 | Mataram | Kingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in 17th century; Dutch East India Company payed tribute to the kingdom for rights of trade at Batavia; weakness of kingdom after 1670s allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java | 0 | |
| 8403956919 | sepoys | troops that serves the British East India Company; recruiting mainly from various were like peoples of India | 1 | |
| 8403956920 | British Raj | British political establishment in India; developed as a result of the rivalry between France and Britain and India | 2 | |
| 8403956921 | Plassey | Battle in 1757 between trips of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory march the rise of British control over northern India | 3 | |
| 8403956922 | Robert Clive | Architect of British victory at Plassey and 1757; establish foundations of British garage in northern India (18th century) | 4 | |
| 8403956923 | Presidencies | three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India; capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay | 5 | |
| 8403956924 | Princely states | domains of Indian princes allied with the British Raj; agents of East India Company were stationed at the ruler's courts to ensure compliance; made up over 1/3 of the British Indian empire | 6 | |
| 8403956925 | nabobs | Name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortune through graft and exploitation | 7 | |
| 8403956926 | Lord Charles Cornwallis | reformer of the East India Company administration of India in the 1790s; reduce power of local British administrators; checked widespread corruption | 8 | |
| 8403956927 | Ram Mohun Roy | Western educated Indian leader, early 19th century; cooperated with British to outlaw sati | 9 | |
| 8403956928 | Isandhlwana | Location of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in south Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one a few victories in African forces over Western Europeans | 10 | |
| 8403956929 | Tropical dependencies | Colonies with substantial indigenous populations of a rule by small European political and military minorities with the assistance of colonize bureaucrats, soldiers, clerks and servants | 11 | |
| 8403956930 | Settlement colonies | Areas, such as North American Australia, that we're 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 | 12 | |
| 8403956931 | White dominions | Colonies of what European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population; small numbers of native inhabitants were typically reduced by disease more the conquest; typical of British holdings in North America and Australia with growing independence in the 19 century | 13 | |
| 8403956932 | White racial supremacy | Believe in inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of weights; Pete in acceptance in decades before World War I; supported by social science doctrines of social Darwinist such as Herbert Spencer | 14 | |
| 8403956933 | Natal | British colony in south Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape colony; major commercial outpost at Durban | 15 | |
| 8403956934 | Boer republics | transvaal and orange free state in southern Africa; established to assert independence of boers from British colonial government in Cape colony in 1850s; discovery of diamonds and precious metals cause bridge migration into the board areas in 1860s | 16 | |
| 8403956935 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in south Africa around 1900; manipulated political situation in South Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republic; encourage Boer war as meanings of destroying Boer independence | 17 | |
| 8403956936 | Anglo-Boer war | fought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics; resulted in British victory but begin the process of decolonization for whites in south Africa | 18 | |
| 8403956937 | Captain James Cook | made voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 resulting in opening of islands to the west; convinced Kamehameha to establish united kingdom in the islands | 19 |
