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| 331171694 | Mataram | Kingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in 17th century; D E I C paid tribute to the kingdom for rights of trade at Batavia; weakness fo kingdom after 1670s allowed Dutch to exert control over Java | 0 | |
| 331171697 | sepoys | Troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India. | 1 | |
| 331171709 | British Raj | British political establishment in India; developed as a result of the rivalry btw France and Britain in India | 2 | |
| 331171715 | Plassey | Battle in 1757 between troops of the B E I C and an Indian army under Siraj ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory resulted in control of northern India | 3 | |
| 331171723 | Robert Clive | Architect of British victory at Plassey in 1757; established foundation of British Raj in northern India | 4 | |
| 331171735 | presidencies | Three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India; capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay | 5 | |
| 331171741 | princely states | Domains of Indian princes allied with the British Raj; agents of E I C were stationed at the rulers' courts to ensure compliance | 6 | |
| 331171751 | nabos | Name given to British representatives of the E I A who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation | 7 | |
| 331171760 | Lord Charles Cornwallis | Reformer of the E I A administration of India in the 1790s; reduced power of local British administrators; checked wide spread corruption | 8 | |
| 331171765 | Ram Mohun Roy | Western-educated Indian leader, early 19th century; cooperated with British to outlaw sati | 9 | |
| 331171770 | Isandhlwana | Location of battle fought in 1879 btw the British and Zulu armies in south Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one of few victories over w. Eu by Africans | 10 | |
| 331171780 | tropical dependencies | The greater portion of the European emires consisting of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large populations of non-Western peoples | 11 | |
| 331171791 | settlement colonies | Areas, such as North America and Australia, that were both conquered by European invaders and settled by large numbers of European migrants who made the colonized areas their permanent home and dispersed and decimated the indigenous inhabitants | 12 | |
| 331171796 | White Dominions | Colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population | 13 | |
| 331171811 | white racial supremacy | Belief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites | 14 | |
| 331171821 | Natal | British colony in south Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost at Durban | 15 | |
| 331171832 | Boer Republics | Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa;established to assert independence of Boer from British colonial gov in Cape Colony in 1850s | 16 | |
| 331171844 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in south Africa around 1900; manipulated political situation in south Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republics | 17 | |
| 331171857 | Anglo-Boer Wawr | Fought btw 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics; resulted in British victory, but began the process of decolonization for whites in South Africa | 18 | |
| 331171869 | Captain James Cook | Made voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 resulting in opening of islands to the West;convinced Kamehameha to establish unified kingdom in the islands | 19 |
