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| 19288348 | Captain James Cook | Made voyages to Hawaii from 1777-1779 resulting in openings of islands to the West; convinced Kamehamehah to establish a unified kingdon in the islands | 0 | |
| 19288349 | Nabobs | Name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation | 1 | |
| 19288350 | Princely States | Domains 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 Empire | 2 | |
| 19288351 | Boer War | FOught between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics; resulted in British victory, but began the process of decolonization for whites in South Africa | 3 | |
| 19288352 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in south Africa around around 1900; manipulated political situation in south Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republics; encourages Boer War as means of destroying Boer independence | 4 | |
| 19288353 | Natal | British colony in south Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost at Durban | 5 | |
| 19288354 | Robert Clive | Architect of British victory at Plassey in 1757; established foundations of British Raj in northern India (18th century) | 6 | |
| 19288355 | British Raj | British political establishedment in India; developed as a result of the rivalry between France and Briain in India | 7 | |
| 19288356 | White Dominions | Colonies 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 century | 8 | |
| 19288357 | Settlement Colonies | Areas, 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 inhabitants | 9 | |
| 19373483 | Presidencies | Three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India; capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay | 10 | |
| 19373484 | Ram-Mohun Roy | Western-educated Indian leader, early 19th century; cooperated with British to outlaw sati | 11 | |
| 19373485 | Isandhlawa | Location of battle fought in 1879between the Britishh and Zulu armies in south Africa; resulted in defeat of British one of few victories of African forces vover western Europeans | 12 | |
| 19373486 | Plassey | Battle in 1757 between troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Sirud-daula ruler of Bengal; British victory resulted in control of northern India | 13 | |
| 19373487 | Sepoys | Troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India | 14 | |
| 19373488 | Mataram | Kingdom 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 1670's allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java | 15 | |
| 19373489 | White Radical Supremacy | Belief in teh 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 Spencer | 16 | |
| 19373490 | Lord Charles Cornwallis | Reformer of the East India Company administration of India in teh 1790's; reduced power of local British administrators; checked widespread corruption | 17 | |
| 19373491 | Boer Republics | Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Afica; established to assert independence of Boers from B colonial government in Cape Colony in the 1850's; discovery of diamonds and precious metals caused British migration into Boer areas in 1860's | 18 |
