From the AP Edition of World Civilizations: The Global ExperienceFifth Edition) is Chapter 24 Vocabulary. It is for my AP World History class at East Career & Technical Academy.
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| 54604984 | Kingdom of Mataram | 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 Java. | 0 | |
| 54604985 | Sepoys | Indian troops that allied with Britain. They were well trained and armed with modern rifles. They revolted in the Great Mutiny of 1857 against Britain's westernization methods that threatened their traditionalist ways. | 1 | |
| 54604986 | Raj | Parts of India under direct British rule. Also referring to the British rule over India from 1757-1947. During this time, India was divided into 11 provinces and about 250 districts. | 2 | |
| 54604987 | 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 | 3 | |
| 54604988 | Robert Clive | This man was a British soldier who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown. | 4 | |
| 54604989 | Presidencies | Three districts that comprised the bulk of British-ruled territories in India during the early 19th century; capitals at Calcutta, madras, and Bombay | 5 | |
| 54604990 | 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 | 6 | |
| 54604991 | Nabobs | Name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation. | 7 | |
| 54604992 | Charles Cornwallis | Commanding general of the British forces that were defeated at Yorktown in 1781, ending the American Revolution. | 8 | |
| 54604993 | Isandhlwana | Location 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 Europeans. | 9 | |
| 54604994 | Tropical Dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the south pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations | 10 | |
| 54604995 | 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 | 11 | |
| 54604996 | Settler Colonies | Colonies, such as those in South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Kenya, and Hawaii, where minority European populations lived among majority indigenous peoples. | 12 | |
| 54604997 | White Racial Supremacy | belief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites; peaked in acceptance in decades before world war 1; supported by social science doctrines of social darwinists. | 13 | |
| 54604998 | Great Trek | Movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony of southern Africa to escape influence of British colonial government in 1834; led to settlement of regions north of Orange River and Natal. | 14 | |
| 54604999 | Boer Republics | Independent states- orange free state and Transvaal- established during the 1850s in the south african interior by Afrikaners | 15 | |
| 54605000 | Cecil Rhodes | Born in 1853, played a major political and economic role in colonial South Africa. He was a financier, statesman, and empire builder with a philosophy of mystical imperialism. | 16 | |
| 54605001 | Boer War | either of two wars: the first when the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881) | 17 | |
| 54605002 | James Cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) | 18 | |
| 54605003 | Kamehameha | fought 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 goods. | 19 | |
| 54605004 | Great Mahele | the edict imposed the western concepts of property on hawaiian land, which had previously been shared by commoners and aristocrats | 20 |
