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| 145540174 | shaka | A Zulu chief in Southern Africa who used soldiers and good military organization to create a large centralized state. | 0 | |
| 145540175 | Muhammad Ali | Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849) | 1 | |
| 145540176 | Henry Stanley | British-American explorer of Africa, famous for his expeditions in search of Dr. David Livingstone. He helped King Leopold II establish the Congo Free State. | 2 | |
| 145540177 | Gold Coast | Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 3 | |
| 145540178 | "legitimate" Trade | Exports from Africa in the nineteenth century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade | 4 | |
| 145540179 | Palm oil | -widely used as cooking oil, -European merchants trading with West Africa occasionally purchased palm oil for use in Europe, but as the oil was bulky and cheap, remained rare outside west africa, -became highly sought after by british merchants, use as industrial lubricant in for machine's of britain's industrial revolution, -formed the basis of soap products e.g. palmolive. Prime export material for ghana and nigeria, although this was overtaken by cocoa in 1880s | 5 | |
| 145540180 | Sierra leone & liberia | Were founded by freed slaves from the U.S. and Great Britain | 6 | |
| 145540181 | Zanzibar slave trade | On the east coast of Africa in present day Tanzania and exported slaves for Indian Ocean trade until the 1800s | 7 | |
| 145540182 | company men | European countries hired them to use bargaining (and fighting when necessary) to persuade Indian rulers to allow them to establish trading posts and who protected trade and company property | 8 | |
| 145540183 | sepoys | Troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India | 9 | |
| 145540184 | Enfield Rifle | the rifle that begins the Sepoy Rebellion because of the grease used on the cartridges. Both Islamic and Hindu Indian citizens refuse to use it because of the rumored pork/beef grease used | 10 | |
| 145540185 | Sepoy rebellion | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. Against the British Raj. | 11 | |
| 145540186 | sokoto caliphate | a primary revivalist state in Africa founded by Usuuman dan Fodio who led a jihad in 1804 against traditional animists in the region. He came out successfully and in 1809 the new Muslim state was born. A constitution was made and the state was able to retain stability. It was a large step towards spreading Islam all across Africa. | 12 | |
| 145540187 | British raj | The rule over much of South Asia between 1765 and 1947 by the East India Company and then by a British government | 13 | |
| 145540188 | Rammohun Roy | An Indian who pushed for reform by combining Hinduism and western thought | 14 | |
| 145540189 | Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. (p. 663) | 15 | |
| 145540190 | Dadabhai Naoroji | known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader. brought attention to the draining of India's wealth into Britain. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP | 16 | |
| 145540191 | DURBARS | An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century, ostensibly in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire | 17 | |
| 145540192 | 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. | 18 | |
| 145540193 | pan-indian nationalism | an attempt to bring India together after the failure of the Sepoy Rebellion | 19 | |
| 145540194 | Cape colony | a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814 | 20 | |
| 145540195 | afrikaners (Boers) | South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910. (735) | 21 | |
| 145540196 | 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. | 22 | |
| 145540197 | singapore | ... | 23 | |
| 145540198 | Burma | ... | 24 | |
| 145540199 | Clipper ship | Large, fast, streamlined sailing vessel, often American built, of the mid-to-late nineteenth century rigged with vast canvas sails hung from tall masts. (p. 666) | 25 | |
| 145540200 | james cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) | 26 | |
| 145540201 | Aborigines | Lived in Australia and were reduced due to European settlings. Died as result of new diseases. Racism and superiority plagued Australia. | 27 | |
| 145540202 | contracts of indenture | Laborers served under these, which bound them to work for a specified period (usually from five to seven years) in return for free passage to their overseas destination. | 28 | |
| 145708636 | quinine | from the bark of the cinchona tree, is used to treat fever and relieves muscle spasm, also prevents malaria | 29 | |
| 145708637 | protectorate | Relationship between 2 states in which the stronger state guarantees to protect the weaker state from external aggression in return for full or partial control of its domestic and foreign affairs. | 30 | |
| 145708638 | Berlin Conference | a meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa | 31 | |
| 145708639 | Effective Occupation | concept that the European powers agreed to at the Berlin Conference that stated that Europe would wholeheartedly go after colonies in Africa while not allowing one country to monopolize the entire continent. This states that you can't call "dibs" on a territory, you actually have to be there. | 32 | |
| 145708640 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. | 33 | |
| 145708641 | Rhodesia | Southern African colonies set up by Cecil Rhodes, Southern Rhodesia had total self government by 1920. The Federation of Rhodesia, set up by Britain as a 10 year trial, failed miserabely and was bitterly opposed by the African nationalists. Rhodesia eventually became Zimbabwe | 34 | |
| 145708642 | Natives Land Act of 1913 | 1st major segregation law ( blacks could only own specific land ) | 35 | |
| 145708643 | Menelik | Emperor of Ethiopia. He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa | 36 | |
| 145708644 | Queen Liliuokalani | The Queen of Hawaii who gave the U.S. naval rights to Pearl Harbor in 1887. She was deposed by American settlers in 1893, leading to Hawaii's annexation by the US in 1898. | 37 | |
| 145708645 | Free Trade Imperialism | Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one, while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late nineteenth century, free-trade imperialism characterized the relations between the Latin American republics. (744) | 38 | |
| 145708646 | Panama Canal | The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Columbians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal. Opened in 1915. | 39 | |
| 145708647 | Alfred Nobel | Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896) | 40 | |
| 145708648 | Thomas Edison | American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. | 41 | |
| 145708649 | 2nd Industrial Revolution | Created wave of affluence (making U.S. best country to live in w/ high wages), technology advanced vastly (like electricity), and it produced all types of new goods for consumers | 42 | |
| 145708650 | Separate spheres | Middle-class ideal where home life was strictly separated from the workplace and womens roles were separate from mens, with women running the household and men earning money outside it. | 43 | |
| 145708651 | Emmeline Pankhurst | Leads movement to win women's vote (suffrage) through militant (radical, sometimes violent) means | 44 | |
| 145708652 | Susan B. Anthony | social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation | 45 | |
| 145708653 | Socialism | a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. | 46 | |
| 145708654 | Labor unions | An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade, created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers. | 47 | |
| 145708655 | Marxism | the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded | 48 | |
| 145708656 | Karl Marx | German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary. With the help and support of Friedrich Engels he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894). These works explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form the basis of all communist theory, and have had a profound influence on the social sciences. | 49 | |
| 145708657 | Anarchism | opposition to any form of government; the theory that all governments should be abolished | 50 | |
| 145708658 | Nationalism | Political ideology that stresses people's membership in a nation-a community defined by a common culture and history as well as by territory. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, nationalism was a force for unity in western Europe (713) | 51 | |
| 145708659 | Liberalism | a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties. | 52 | |
| 145708660 | Mazzini | Giuseppe Mazzini was the first person that tried to unify all of Italy. He preached a centralized democratic republic based on universal male suffrage and the will of the people. His brand of democratic republicanism seemed too radical for the people. Austria smashed Mazzini's republicanism in 1848. | 53 | |
| 145708661 | Garibaldi & Cavour | unified Italy | 54 | |
| 145708662 | Bismarck | A conservative prime minister of Prussia. He was an architect of German unification under the Prussian king in 1870. He utilized liberal reforms to attracted support for conservative causes. | 55 | |
| 145708663 | Tinderbox of Europe | ... | 56 | |
| 145708664 | pogrom | organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews) | 57 | |
| 145708665 | piedmont-sardinia | Strongest of Italian territories; unified all of italy | 58 | |
| 145708666 | Russo-Japanese War | Interests of Japan and Russia in Korea caused the conflict that led to Russo-Japanese war from 1904 to 1905. Japan defeated Russian troops and crushed its navy. By 1910, Japan had complete control of Korea and parts of Manchuria. | 59 | |
| 145708667 | Revolution of 1905 | a historical term describing a wave of political terrorism, strikes, peasant unrests, mutinies, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire, leading to the establishment of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, multi-party system and the Russian Constitution of 1906. | 60 | |
| 145708668 | Chinese self-strengthening movement | ... | 61 | |
| 145708669 | Empress Dowager Cixi | Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest, supported antiforeign movements, and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces. | 62 | |
| 145708670 | Commodore Perry | The Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. | 63 | |
| 145708671 | Treaty of Kanagawa (Aslo Convention of Kanagawa) | an 1854 agreement between the U.S. and Japan which opened two Japanese ports to U.S. ships and allowed the U.S. to set up an embassy in Japan. | 64 | |
| 145708672 | Meiji Restoration | The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism. (See also Yamagata Aritomo.) | 65 | |
| 145708673 | Yamagata Aritomo | One of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration. | 66 | |
| 145708674 | Mutsuhito | emperor of Japan who encouraged the modernization of Japan (1852-1912) | 67 | |
| 145708675 | Zaibatsu | The large family-controlled banking and industrial groups that owned many companies in Japan before World War II. | 68 |
