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| 5910311194 | nationalism | A positive feeling of belonging to a certain nation, often including a desire to serve the nation, whether in conformity of the population or resistance | 0 | |
| 5910311195 | Zionism | A form of nationalism of Jews and Jewish culture that supports a Jewish nation state in the territory defined as the Land of Israel |  | 1 |
| 5910311196 | Act of Union | The _____________united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This prompted Irish nationalism. |  | 2 |
| 5910311197 | Mazzini & Italian Unification | __________was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy. His efforts helped bring about the independence and unification Italy. He wrote a book titled "On the Duties of Man" |  | 3 |
| 5910311198 | Blood and Iron | A call by Otto von Bismarck to use war against enemies to unify the country of Germany. Later used to refer to any government's policy of using war to unite a nation. |  | 4 |
| 5910311199 | zollverein | The ____________ or German Customs Union, was a coalition of German states formed to manage customs and economic policies within their territories. | 5 | |
| 5910311200 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. Herbert Spencer | 6 | |
| 5910311201 | White Man's Burden | 1899, Rudyard Kipling's poem "The __________________," saw the world from a Eurocentric viewpoint. The idea that Europeans had a duty to spread "civilization" to "non civilized countries" | 7 | |
| 5910311202 | Crimean War | Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires. To prevent Russian expansion, Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans. | 8 | |
| 5910311203 | Sick Man of Europe | Nickname for the Ottoman Empire who was very weak at this time |  | 9 |
| 5910311204 | millet system | The Ottoman Empire ruled through the ___ ____, a system of rule using religious communities to enforce religious rules and collect taxes. | 10 | |
| 5910311205 | Young Turks | Western-oriented elite whose ideas threatened the traditional government and its administrative and military officials of the Ottoman Empire. The ____ ____. | 11 | |
| 5910311206 | Indochina | A Peninsula of southeastern asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam |  | 12 |
| 5910311207 | cultivation system | System of forced labor used in the Netherlands East Indies in the nineteenth century; peasants were required to farm at least 20 percent of their land in cash crops, such as sugar or coffee, for sale at low and fixed prices to government contractors, who then earned enormous profits from further sale of the crops. | 13 | |
| 5910311208 | Sepoy Mutiny | This series of events that prompted the British government to assume direct control over India replacing the British East India Company as the political and economic force in India. (British name for this event) |  | 14 |
| 5910311209 | Kulturlstelsel | Dutch government policy in the mid-nineteenth century for the colony in the Dutch East Indies. | 15 | |
| 5910311210 | extraterritoriality | Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country, disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right. | 16 | |
| 5910311211 | Opium Wars | A series of battles between Great Britain and China, ended with the Chinese treaty: *opening of 5 Chinese ports to foreign merchants *commercial and diplomatic privileges including "extraterritoriality" for Europeans 1839-42 and 1856-60 | 17 | |
| 5910311212 | Taiping Rebellion | The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. 1850-1864 | 18 | |
| 5910311213 | Boxer Rebellion | 1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops. | 19 | |
| 5910311214 | Cape Colony | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 initially to provide a coastal station for the Dutch seaborne empire; by 1770 settlements had expanded sufficiently to come into conflict with Bantus. Later taken over by the British. | 20 | |
| 5910311215 | mfecane | The "time of troubles" in southern Africa as the Zulu kingdom expanded and as the Dutch moved into southern Africa (1815 to about 1841) | 21 | |
| 5910311216 | Zulus | Largest South African ethnic group, with an estimated 10-11 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. | 22 | |
| 5910311217 | Orange Free State | Independent Boer Republic in South Africa. The Cape Colony was a British colony also located in South Africa | 23 | |
| 5910311218 | Suez Canal | Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt, designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882. | 24 | |
| 5910311219 | Boer War | War between the Afrikaners and British. (1899-1902) Sometimes called the South African War | 25 | |
| 5910311220 | Shaka Zulu | A chief in Southern Africa who used soldiers and good military organization to create a large centralized state. | 26 | |
| 5910311221 | Muhammad Ali | Albanian soldier took control of Egypt from Ottoman Empire. (1769-1849) | 27 | |
| 5910311222 | King Leopold | King of Belgium; claimed much of central Africa for himself; the Belgian Congo. | 28 | |
| 5910311223 | Sierra Leone/Liberia & American Colonization Society | A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. | 29 | |
| 5910311224 | Heart of Darkness | A novel (a frame narrative type of novel) in which Joseph Conrad retells the story of a European trader in the Congo. |  | 30 |
| 5910311225 | Berlin Conference | 1844-5 Conference to settle European disputes about claims to Africa. Hosted by Bismarck. | 31 | |
| 5910311226 | Livingstone | A Scottish missionary and explorer who wanted to establish a missionary station and provide medical care for Africans; discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1841 to 1873) | 32 | |
| 5910311227 | Stanley | British-American explorer of Africa, famous for his expeditions in search of Dr. David Livingstone. He assisted King Leopold II establish the Congo Free State. Brutal treatment of Africans. (1871-1909) | 33 | |
| 5910311228 | Maji Maji Revolt | violent African resistance in the German colony of Tanganyika,in response to policies requiring the cultivation of cotton for export (1905 to 1907) | 34 | |
| 5910311229 | Fashoda Confrontation | Military confrontation between Great Britain and France in the Sudan in 1898 | 35 | |
| 5910311230 | signares | The Mestizo French-African women of the island of Gorée in French Senegal during the 18th-and 19th century who were of high social standing. They married European men. | 36 | |
| 5910311231 | nabobs | Name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation. | 37 | |
| 5910311232 | Emiliano Aguinaldo | This man worked with the US when American troops arrived and captured Manila, collaborating with Filipino insurgents, to overthrow Spanish rule. | 38 | |
| 5910311233 | Matthew Perry | He was the commodore of the U.S Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854. |  | 39 |
| 5910311234 | world system | A term coined to describe new international relationships of the late 19th century; the US and Northwest Europe and Japan were at the "core" and all other lands were at the "periphery". Immanuel Wallerstein |  | 40 |
| 5910311235 | pogrom | murderous attack on a particular group or people officially or unofficially approved by the government -- usually based on ethnicity or religion | 41 | |
| 5910311236 | han | Japanese feudal estate; territory controlled by a local lord or "daimyo" Abolished in 1871 | 42 | |
| 5910311237 | "Eastern Ethics, Western Science" | Phrase emphasizing the ideas that inspired the Meiji restoration. | 43 | |
| 5910311238 | Meiji Restoration | Name for the reforms in Japan from 1867 to 1912. Reforms included *restoration of emperor to full power * creation of a constitution *adoption of western industry/military/some education *great respect for Japanese national identity | 44 | |
| 5910311239 | daimyo | feudal landlord of Japan controlled most of Japan from 1500's to 1867 | 45 |
