9342874967 | Samurai | Literally "those who serve", the heredity military elite of the Toklugawa Shogunate | 0 | |
9342878913 | Tokugawa Shogunate | The last of the three shogunates of Japan | 1 | |
9342878914 | Sepoy | A soldier in South Asia, especially in service of the British | 2 | |
9342882042 | British Raj | The rule over much of South Asia between 1765 & 1947 by the East India Company and then by a British government | 3 | |
9342883765 | Sepoy Rebellion | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; also called the Sepoy Mutiny | 4 | |
9342886283 | Indian Civil Service | The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men, it gradually added qualified Indians | 5 | |
9342890193 | Contract of Indenture | A voluntary agreement binding a person to work for a specified period of years in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800, mostly Europeans, after 1800 mostly Asians | 6 | |
9342897214 | Commordore Matthew Perry | A Commodore of the United States Navy and commanded a number of ships. He served in several wars, most notably in the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War | 7 | |
9342902268 | Victorian Age | The reign of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. Also used to describe the late 19th century society, with it's rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class & working-class people | 8 | |
9342904604 | Karl Marx | German journalist and philosopher, founder of the Marxist branch of socialism, he wrote "The Communist Manifesto" | 9 | |
9342904605 | Anarchist | Revolutionaries who wanted to abolish all private property and governments, usually by violence, and replace them with free associations of groups | 10 | |
9342909753 | Nationalism | A political ideology that stresses people's membership in a nation- a community defined by a common culture and history as well as by territory , force for unity | 11 | |
9342909754 | LIberalism | Political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights, representative governments, and the protection of private property, derived from enlightenment | 12 | |
9342914896 | Meiji Restoration | The political program that followed the destruction of Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, & imperialism | 13 | |
9342914897 | Suez Canal | Ship canal dug across isthmus of Suez in Egypt, designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It's strategic importance lead to the British conquest of Egypt | 14 | |
9342930922 | "Scramble" for Africa | Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in 1880s & 1890s | 15 | |
9342937999 | King Leopold | King of Belgium, active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the ruler of the Congo Free State | 16 | |
9342940216 | Colonialism | Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory an develops it's resources for the benefit of the colonial power | 17 | |
9342942374 | Berlin Conference | Conference that German chancelor Otto vov Bismerck called to set rules for the partition of Africa | 18 | |
9342944912 | Afrikaners | South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the 17th century | 19 | |
9342949904 | Cecil Rhodes | A British businessman, mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896 | 20 | |
9342957145 | Free-Trade Imperialism | Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one, while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. | 21 | |
9342957146 | Panama Canal | Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by US Army Engineers, it opened in 1914, greatly shortened the sea voyage between the east & west coasts of North America | 22 |
Imperialism Vocab (AP World History) Flashcards
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