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64461941Berlin conferenceA meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa0
64461942Sepoy Rebellion/ First war for IndependenceThe revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. (p. 661)1
64461943Henry Morton StanleyBritish journalist and explorer; discovered origin of the Congo River and explored Congo territory of King Leopold II2
64461944Nationalismthe doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other3
64461945William I of PrussiaPrussian king who became emperor of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War.4
64461946Zionisma policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine5
64461947Alfred DreyfusA Jewish officer in the French army unjustly accused of treason6
64461948Social darwinismThe application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.7
64461949Crimean Wara war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia8
64461950Opium WarsWars between Britain and China in the 1840s and 1850s began when the Chinese government tried to prevent Britain merchants from illegally importing opium, the British responded militarily9
64461951ExtraterritorialityRight of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation.10
64461952Taiping RebellionThe most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire.11
64461953Boxer RebellionA 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country.12
64461954BoersDutch settlers in south Africa13
64461955Shaka ZuluAround 1816 used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state. The Zulu land became part of British-controlled land in 1887.14
64461956Young TurksFormed in 1878 in patriotic anger against the Ottomans defeats in the Balkans, revolutionary party in India15
64461957Muhammad AliAlbanian 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)16
64461958David LivingstoneScottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)17
64461959Maji-Maji RevoltRevolt led by Kinjikitile Ngwele against the Germans in Africa, the rebels refused to perform forced labor on the cotton fields18
64461960NabobA governor of India under the Mogul Empire, also called a nawob19
64461961Satia Hindu ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced.20
64461962Meiji RestorationThe 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.21
64461963Foot bindingpractice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household22
64461964Indiaa republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia23
64461965Ottoman EmpireCentered in Constantinople, the Turkish imperial state that conquered large amounts of land in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans, and fell after World War I.24
64461966French Indochinathe French colonies of Cambodia and Laos and Vietnam were formerly organized as French Indochina25
64461967PogromsGovernment supported attacks against Jews in Russia26
64461968Egypta republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 197127
64461969Germanya republic in central Europe28
64461970Brazilthe largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world29
64461971Haitia republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola30
64461972Francea republic in western Europe31
64461973Tokugawa ShogunateJapanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences32
64461974Congress of ViennaMeeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon I.33

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