64461941 | Berlin conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa | 0 | |
64461942 | Sepoy Rebellion/ First war for Independence | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. (p. 661) | 1 | |
64461943 | Henry Morton Stanley | British journalist and explorer; discovered origin of the Congo River and explored Congo territory of King Leopold II | 2 | |
64461944 | Nationalism | the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | 3 | |
64461945 | William I of Prussia | Prussian king who became emperor of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. | 4 | |
64461946 | Zionism | a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine | 5 | |
64461947 | Alfred Dreyfus | A Jewish officer in the French army unjustly accused of treason | 6 | |
64461948 | Social darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | 7 | |
64461949 | Crimean War | a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia | 8 | |
64461950 | Opium Wars | Wars 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 militarily | 9 | |
64461951 | Extraterritoriality | Right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation. | 10 | |
64461952 | Taiping Rebellion | The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. | 11 | |
64461953 | Boxer Rebellion | A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country. | 12 | |
64461954 | Boers | Dutch settlers in south Africa | 13 | |
64461955 | Shaka Zulu | Around 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 | |
64461956 | Young Turks | Formed in 1878 in patriotic anger against the Ottomans defeats in the Balkans, revolutionary party in India | 15 | |
64461957 | 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) | 16 | |
64461958 | David Livingstone | Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) | 17 | |
64461959 | Maji-Maji Revolt | Revolt led by Kinjikitile Ngwele against the Germans in Africa, the rebels refused to perform forced labor on the cotton fields | 18 | |
64461960 | Nabob | A governor of India under the Mogul Empire, also called a nawob | 19 | |
64461961 | Sati | a 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 | |
64461962 | 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. | 21 | |
64461963 | Foot binding | practice 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 household | 22 | |
64461964 | India | a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia | 23 | |
64461965 | Ottoman Empire | Centered 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 | |
64461966 | French Indochina | the French colonies of Cambodia and Laos and Vietnam were formerly organized as French Indochina | 25 | |
64461967 | Pogroms | Government supported attacks against Jews in Russia | 26 | |
64461968 | Egypt | a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971 | 27 | |
64461969 | Germany | a republic in central Europe | 28 | |
64461970 | Brazil | the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world | 29 | |
64461971 | Haiti | a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola | 30 | |
64461972 | France | a republic in western Europe | 31 | |
64461973 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences | 32 | |
64461974 | Congress of Vienna | Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon I. | 33 |
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