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56750134Kingdom of MataramKingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in 17th century; Dutch East India Company paid tribute to the kingdom for rights of trade at Batavia; weakness of kingdom after 1670s allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java0
56750135SepoysTroops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India1
56750136Rajthe British-controlled portions of India in the years 1757-19472
56750137Plassey (1757)Battle in 1757 between troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Sir àjud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory resulted in control of northern India.3
56750138Robert CliveArchitect of British victory at Plassey; established foundations of British Raj in northern India4
56750139PresidenciesThree districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India; capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay5
56750140Princely StatesDomains 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 one-third of the British Indian Empire6
56750141NabobsName given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation7
56750142Charles CornwallisReformer of the East India Company administration of India in the 1790s; reduced power of local British administrators; checked widespread corruption8
56750143IsandhlwanaLocation of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in South Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one of few victories of African forces over Western Europeans9
56750144Tropical DependenciesWestern European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the south pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations10
56750145White DominionsColonies 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 century11
56750146Settler ColoniesAreas, 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 inhabitants12
56750147White Racial SupremacyBelief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites; peaked in acceptance in decades before World War I; supported by social science doctrines of social Darwinists such as Herbert Spencer13
56750148Great Trekmigration into the south African interior of thousands of afrikaners seeking to escape British control14
56750149Boer RepublicsTransvaal 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 caused British migration into the Boer areas in 1860s15
56750150Cecil RhodesBritish 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
56750151Boer WarFought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics; resulted in British victory, but began the process of decolonization in South Africa17
56750152James CookMade voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 resulting in opening of islands to the West; convinced Kamehameha to establish unified kingdom in the islands18
56750153KamehamehaFought series of wars backed by British weapons and advisors resulting in unified Hawaiian kingdom by 1810; as king he promoted economic change encouraging Western merchants to establish export trade in Hawaiian goods19
56750154Great MeheleHawaiian edict issued in 1848: imposed Western concept of property on Hawaiian land previously shared by Hawaiian: much of private property sold off to Western commercial interests by Hawaiian monarchy.20

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