330391322 | Kingdom of Mataram | controlled most of interior Java in the 17th century; weakness of the state after the 1670s allowed the Dutch to expand their control over all of Java. | 0 | |
330391323 | sepoys | Indian troops, trained in European style, serving the French and British. | 1 | |
330391324 | Raj | the British political establishment in India. | 2 | |
330391325 | 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. | 3 | |
330391326 | Robert Clive | architect of British victory at Plassey; established foundations of the Raj in northern India. | 4 | |
330391327 | 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 | |
330391328 | nabobs | name given to Britons who went to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation; returned to Britain to live richly. | 6 | |
330391329 | Charles Cornwallis | British official who reformed East India Company corruption during the 1790s. | 7 | |
330391330 | tropical dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations. | 8 | |
330391331 | White Dominions | a type of settlement colony - as in North America and Australia - where European settlers made up the majority of the population. | 9 | |
330391332 | settler colonies | colonies - as South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Kenya, and Hawaii - where minority European populations lived among majority indigenous peoples. | 10 | |
330391333 | white racial supremacy | belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before World War I. | 11 | |
330391334 | Great Trek | migration into the South African interior of thousands of Afrikaners seeking to escape British control. | 12 | |
330391335 | Boer republics | independent states - the Orange Free State and Transvaal; - established during the 1850s in the South African interior by Afrikaners. | 13 | |
330391336 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the Boer republics. | 14 | |
330391337 | Boer War (1899-1902) | fought between the British and Afrikaners; British victory and post-war policies left African, population of South Africa under Afrikaner control. | 15 | |
330391338 | James Cook | his voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 opened the islands to the West. | 16 | |
330391339 | Great Mahele | Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed Western property concepts; that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to Western commercial interests. | 17 | |
330391340 | 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 | |
330391341 | Isandhlwana (1879) | Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th-century European armies. | 19 | |
330391342 | Presidencies | three districts that comprised the bulk of British ruled 19th century; capitals at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay.territories in India during the early | 20 |
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