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9214354873Opium WarsConflicts between China and Great Britain over the British Trade in opium0
9214357938Treaty of NanjingOpened British trade in China, ended Opium War1
9214361000Gunboat DiplomacyThe use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements2
9214362654global mass migrationthe mass movement of people from Europe in the nineteenth century3
9214365096nativismpolicies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass migration, that give preferential treatment of established inhabitants over immigrants4
9214368202new imperialismlate 19th C. drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad5
9214370277Afrikanersdescendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa6
9214371681Berlin Conferencea meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa7
9214374986white man's burdenThe idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living8
9214378389Orientalisma term coined by literary scholar Edward Said to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures9
9214380467Great RebellionThe 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed10
9214385593Meiji RestorationThe restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan11
9214387308hundred days of reformA series of western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge12
9214390541Sino-Japanese WarConflict between Japan and China over territory in Korea13
9214391930Russo-Japanese WarConflict between Japan and Russia over territory in Korea and Manchuria14
9214398698Scramble for AfricaPanic to control territory in Africa after the Berlin Conference15

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