Chapter 24 ap world vocab Flashcards

18840052	Sepoys	Indian troops, trained in european style, serving the French and British	0
18840053	Raj	the British political establishment in india	1
18840054	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
18840055	Robert clive	Architect of British victory at plassey; established foundations of the raj in northern India	3
18840056	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
18840057	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
18840058	Nabobs	Name given to Britons who went to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation; returned to Britain to live richly	6
18840638	Charles Cornwallis	British official who reformed east India company corruption during the 1790s	7
18840639	Isandhlwana (1879)	Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th- century European armies	8
18840640	tropical dependencies	Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the south pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations	9
18840641	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
18841487	Settler colonies	Colonies, such as those in south Africa, new Zealand, Algeria, kenya, and Hawaii, where minority Europeans populations lived among majority indigenous peoples	11
18841488	white racial supremacy	Belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before world war I	12
18841489	Great trek	migration into the south African interior of thousands of afrikaners seeking to escape British control	13
18841490	Boer republics	Independent states- orange free state and Transvaal- established during the 1850s in the south african interior by Afrikaners	14
18841491	Cecil rhodes	British entrepreneur in south Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the boer republics	15
18841492	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
18841493	James cook	His voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 opened the islands to the west	17
18841494	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
19039191	Great mahele	Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed western property concepts that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to western commercial interests	19
19039394	Ram mohum Roy	Western-educated Indian leader, early 19th century; cooperated with British to outlaw sati	20
19039395	natal	British colony in south Africa; developed after boer trek north from cape colony; major commercial outpost of Durban	21
19039396	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	22