Absolutism: http://quizlet.com/23498636/world-history-exam-sg-absolutism-flash-cards/
Enlightenment & SR: http://quizlet.com/23527198/history-final-sg-enlightenment-sr-flash-cards/
French Revolution: http://quizlet.com/23527992/world-history-sg-french-revolution-flash-cards/
Nationalism: http://quizlet.com/23535639/world-history-exam-sg-nationalism-flash-cards/
Industrial Revolution: http://quizlet.com/23539246/world-history-exam-sg-industrial-revolution-flash-cards/
Imperialism: http://quizlet.com/23539322/would-history-exam-sg-imperialism-flash-cards/
Armenian Genocide: http://quizlet.com/23539459/world-history-exam-sg-armenian-genocide-flash-cards/
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| 2236111371 | Imperialism | the ambition of powerful nation to dominate the political, economic, and cultural affairs of another nation | 0 | |
| 2236111372 | Leopold II | man who entered the area around the Congo River in Africa; he killed people to get rubber (killed 10 million through laboring them to export rubber; 4 million more than Hitler) | 1 | |
| 2236111373 | Reasons for imperialism | Resources; New markets; Nationalism of dominate country; Outlets for population; Social/Darwinism/White Man's Burden | 2 | |
| 2236111374 | Berlin Conference | conference where all of Europe decided that Africa would be divided up (except Liberia and Ethiopia); Africa wasn't invited | 3 | |
| 2236111375 | Boers; Boer War | the Dutch settlers who settled on African land and took over; they lost the .... over gold to the British (they fought over gold; 14,000 died in concentration camps; Africans sided with them) | 4 | |
| 2236111376 | White Man's Burden; Social Darwinism | the poem that said it was white people's duty to teach the rest of the word; the idea that white people are superior to lesser cultures | 5 | |
| 2236111377 | Colony | type of influence where there is complete control | 6 | |
| 2236111378 | Protectorates | the type of control where the local ruler gets to keep his title, but there is foreign control | 7 | |
| 2236111379 | Sphere of Influence | the type of contorl where a powerful nation has exclusive trading privladges with a lesser nation (many European powers and Japan had a strong "foothold" on Chinese trade; this is called this) | 8 | |
| 2236111380 | Ethiopia and Liberia | the only African countries able to resist taking over at the Berlin Conference | 9 | |
| 2236111381 | Positive and Negative Effects of Colonial Rule in Africa | Positive: new goods, roads, education, transportation; Negative: war, death, forced policies | 10 | |
| 2236111382 | Raj | time period for British control on India under Queen Victoria | 11 | |
| 2236111383 | Sepoy Mutiny | event where Hindu and Muslim Soldiers refused to fight and were jailed because the rumor that cartridges contained beef and pork; they later went to help Northern Indian Rebellion | 12 | |
| 2236111384 | Opium War | war between China and Britain over China trying to block opium from being traded into their country; Britain won by blowing up China's puny ships | 13 | |
| 2236111385 | Extraterritoriality | the idea were foreigners are immune to the laws of the country they are trading in (Britain was immune from China's laws) | 14 | |
| 2236111386 | Boxer Rebellion | the Chinese peasant rebellion against the foreigner's immunity to Chinese law; rebellion failed, but a strong sense of nationalism emerged in China | 15 | |
| 2236111387 | Matthew Perry; opening of Japan | the US commodore who led the ......; the event where ...... arrived in Japan to gain exclusive trading rights; led to extraterritoriality for US in Japan; US threatened to blow them up if trade did not start | 16 | |
| 2236111388 | Treaty of Kanagawa | the treaty between the US and the Japanese emperor that said US had exclusive trading rights in Japan; Japanese resented because it gave the US extraterritoriality rights | 17 | |
| 2236111389 | Meiji Restoration | the event where the Japanese (Samurai) overthrew Tokagawa Shogun and restored emperor; said they will have a strong country and military | 18 |
