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| 225684823 | Sepoys | Indian troops, trained in European style, serving the French and British. | 0 | |
| 225684824 | Raj | The British political establishment in India. | 1 | |
| 225684825 | Plassey (1757) | Battle between the troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj-ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory gave them control of Northeast India. | 2 | |
| 225684826 | Robert Clive | Architect of British victory at Plassey; established foundations of the Raj in northern India. | 3 | |
| 225684827 | Presidencies | Three districts that comprised the bulk of British-ruled territories in India during the early 19th century; capitals at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. | 4 | |
| 225684828 | Princely states | Ruled by Indian princes allied with the Raj; agents of the East India Company were stationed at their courts to ensure loyalty. | 5 | |
| 225684829 | Nabobs | Name given to Britons who went to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation; returned to Britain to live richly. | 6 | |
| 225684830 | Charles Cornwallis | British official who reformed East India Company corruption during the 1790s. | 7 | |
| 225684831 | Isandhlwana (1879) | Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th-century European armies. | 8 | |
| 225684832 | Tropical dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations. | 9 | |
| 225684833 | White dominions | A type of settlement colony, such as those in North America and Australia, where European settlers made up the majority of the population. | 10 | |
| 225684834 | Settler colonies | Colonies, such as those in South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Kenya, and Hawaii, where minority European populations lived among majority indigenous peoples. | 11 | |
| 225684835 | White racial supremacy | Belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before World War I. | 12 | |
| 225684836 | Great Trek | Migration into the South African interior of thousands of Afrikaners seeking to escape British control. | 13 | |
| 225684837 | Boer republics | Independent states—Orange Free State and Transvaal—established during the 1850s in the South African interior by Afrikaners. | 14 | |
| 225684838 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the Boer republics. | 15 | |
| 225684839 | Boer War (1899-1902) | Fought between the British and Afrikaners; British victory and postwar policies left the African population of South Africa under Afrikaner control. | 16 | |
| 225684840 | James Cook | His voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 opened the islands to the West. | 17 | |
| 225684841 | Kamehameha | Hawaiian prince; with British backing he created a unified kingdom by 1810; promoted the entry of Western ideas in commerce and social relations. | 18 | |
| 225684842 | Great Mahele | Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed Western property concepts that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to Western commercial interests. | 19 | |
| 225684843 | Mataram | Kingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in 17th century; Dutch East India Company paid tribute to the kingdom for rights of trade at Batavia; weakness of kingdom after 1670s allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java. | 20 | |
| 225684844 | Ram Mohum Roy | Western-educated Indian leader, early 19th century; cooperated with British to outlaw sati. | 21 | |
| 225684845 | Natal | British colony in South Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost of Durban. | 22 | |
| 225684846 | Nationalism | Political viewpoint with origins in western Europe; often allied with other "isms"; urged importance of national unity; valued a collective identity based on culture, race, or ethnic origin. | 23 |
