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| 18840052 | Sepoys | Indian troops, trained in european style, serving the French and British | 0 | |
| 18840053 | Raj | the British political establishment in india | 1 | |
| 18840054 | Plassey (1757) | Battle between the troops of the British east India company and an Indian army under siraj-ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory gave them control of northeast India | 2 | |
| 18840055 | Robert clive | Architect of British victory at plassey; established foundations of the raj in northern India | 3 | |
| 18840056 | Presidencies | Three districts that comprised the bulk of British-ruled territories in India during the early 19th century; capitals at Calcutta, madras, and Bombay | 4 | |
| 18840057 | Princely states | Ruled by Indian princes allied with the raj; agents of the east India company were stationed at their courts to ensure loyalty | 5 | |
| 18840058 | Nabobs | Name given to Britons who went to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation; returned to Britain to live richly | 6 | |
| 18840638 | Charles Cornwallis | British official who reformed east India company corruption during the 1790s | 7 | |
| 18840639 | Isandhlwana (1879) | Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th- century European armies | 8 | |
| 18840640 | tropical dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the south pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations | 9 | |
| 18840641 | White dominions | A type of settlement colony, such as those in north America and australia, where European settlers made up the majority of the population | 10 | |
| 18841487 | Settler colonies | Colonies, such as those in south Africa, new Zealand, Algeria, kenya, and Hawaii, where minority Europeans populations lived among majority indigenous peoples | 11 | |
| 18841488 | white racial supremacy | Belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before world war I | 12 | |
| 18841489 | Great trek | migration into the south African interior of thousands of afrikaners seeking to escape British control | 13 | |
| 18841490 | Boer republics | Independent states- orange free state and Transvaal- established during the 1850s in the south african interior by Afrikaners | 14 | |
| 18841491 | Cecil rhodes | British entrepreneur in south Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the boer republics | 15 | |
| 18841492 | Boer war (1899-1902) | Fought between the British and Afrikaners; British victory and postwar policies left the African population of south Africa under Afrikaner control | 16 | |
| 18841493 | James cook | His voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 opened the islands to the west | 17 | |
| 18841494 | Kamehameha | hawaiian prince; with british backing he created a unified kingdom by 1810; promoted the entry of western ideas in commerce and social relations | 18 | |
| 19039191 | Great mahele | Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed western property concepts that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to western commercial interests | 19 | |
| 19039394 | Ram mohum Roy | Western-educated Indian leader, early 19th century; cooperated with British to outlaw sati | 20 | |
| 19039395 | natal | British colony in south Africa; developed after boer trek north from cape colony; major commercial outpost of Durban | 21 | |
| 19039396 | Nationalism | Political viewpoint with origins in western Europe; often allied with other "isms"; urged importance of national unity; valued a collective identity based on culture, race, or ethnic origin | 22 |
