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| 2790269974 | Afrikaners | Dutch farmers who settled South Africa during the seventeenth century. | 0 | |
| 2790269975 | Battle of Omdurman | Battle (1898) in which British troops kill 11,000 Sudanese in five hours, demonstrating the increasing power of Western military technologies. | 1 | |
| 2790269976 | Berlin Conference | Meeting organized by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1884-1885 that provided the justification for European colonization of Africa. | 2 | |
| 2790269977 | Christianity | Religion emerging from Middle East in the first century C.E. holding Jesus to be the son of God who sacrificed himself on behalf of mankind. | 3 | |
| 2790269978 | East India Company | British joint-stock company that grew to be a state within a state in India; it possessed its own armed forces. | 4 | |
| 2790269979 | French Indochina | French colonies in southeast Asia, established during the nineteenth century, that included modern day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. | 5 | |
| 2790269980 | Great Game | Nineteenth-century competition between Great Britain and Russia for the control of central Asia. | 6 | |
| 2790269981 | Great Trek | Migration of Afrikaners inland to claim new lands in response to British-Dutch tensions. They established the Orange Free Sate in 1854 and the Transvaal in 1860. | 7 | |
| 2790269982 | Hinduism | Main religion of India, a combination of Dravidian and Aryan concepts; Hinduism's goal is to reach spiritual purity and union with the great world spirit; its important concepts include dharma, karma, and samsara. | 8 | |
| 2790269983 | Imperialism | Term associated with the expansion of European powers and their conquest and colonization of African and Asian societies, mainly from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. | 9 | |
| 2790269984 | Indentured labor | Labor source in the Americas; wealthy planters would pay the European poor to sell a portion of their working lives, usually seven years, in exchange for passage. | 10 | |
| 2790269985 | Indian National Congress | Forum established in 1885 where educated Indians convened to discuss public affairs such as colonial misrule and aims for self-rule. | 11 | |
| 2790269986 | Islam | Monotheistic religion of the prophet Muhammad (570-632); influenced by Judaism and Christianity, Muhammad was considered the final prophet because the earlier religions had not seen the entire picture; the Qu'ran is the holy book of Islam. | 12 | |
| 2790269987 | Lagaan | Taxes imposed by the British on Indians. | 13 | |
| 2790269988 | Maji Maji Rebellion | Rebellion (1905) of east Africans that sought to defeat the Germans through traditional magic. | 14 | |
| 2790269989 | Maori | Indigenous peoples of New Zealand. | 15 | |
| 2790269990 | Meiji Restoration | Restoration of imperial rule under Emperor Meiji in 1868 by a coalition led by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Ito Hirobumi; the restoration enacted western reforms to strengthen Japan. | 16 | |
| 2790269991 | Monroe Doctrine | American doctrine issued in 1823 during the presidency of James Monroe that warned Europeans to keep their hands off Latin America; the doctrine also expressed growing American strength and growing American imperialistic views regarding Latin America. | 17 | |
| 2790269992 | Mughals | Islamic dynasty that ruled India from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries; the construction of the Taj Mahal is representative of their splendor; with the exception of the enlightened reign of Akbar, the increasing conflict between Hindus and Muslims was another of their legacies. | 18 | |
| 2790269993 | Muslim | A follower of Islam. | 19 | |
| 2790269994 | Panama Canal | Project (1903-1914) allowing the U.S. access to the Atlantic and the Pacific. | 20 | |
| 2790269995 | Partition of India | Violent division of India into Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India upon its independence in 1947. | 21 | |
| 2790269996 | Sati | Also known as suttee, Indian practice of a widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband. | 22 | |
| 2790269997 | Scientific racism | Nineteenth-century attempt to justify racism by scientific means; an example would be Gobineau's Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races. | 23 | |
| 2790269998 | Sepoys | Indian troops who served the British. | 24 | |
| 2790269999 | Sikhs | Indian syncretic faith that contains elements of Hinduism and Islam. | 25 | |
| 2790270000 | Social Darwinism | Nineteenth-century philosophy, championed by thinkers such as Herbert Spencer, that attempted to apply Darwinian "survival of the fittest" to the social and political realm; adherents saw the elimination of weaker nations as part of a natural process and used the philosophy to justify war. | 26 | |
| 2790270001 | Spanish-American War | War lasting from 1898 to 1899 in which the United States took Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spanish control. | 27 | |
| 2790270002 | United East India Company (VOC) | Dutch joint-stock company, founded in 1602, that operated Dutch trading posts with government support but with little government oversight. | 28 |
