Chapter 19 Flashcards

142024912	Berlin conference	Meant to calm rivalries and avoid war, produce an agreement that any European could establish Colonies in unclaimed land with advanced notice	0
142024913	Bessemer steel converter	Allowed iron ore to be converted to steel efficiently	1
142024914	British raj	(reign) , The rule over much of South Asia between 1765 and 1947 by the East India Company and then by a British government. (p. 659)	2
142024915	Company men	Men that staffed European outposts, job was to organize trade and protect warehouses and offices	3
142024916	Captain James Cook	Anchored on australias southeast shore, declared that area would be suitable for British settlement	4
142024917	Charles Darwin, The origins of species (1859)	English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882), Darwin's publication on his theory on evolution	5
142024918	Thomas Edison	Invented incandescent light bulbs, fuses, sockets, and switches	6
142024919	Imperialism (colonial, political, economic, social-cultural)	Empire building; colonial-most complete with a territory or colony actually occupied and ruled by a forgein nation Political-the dominant country uses diplomacy or military force to influence the internal affairs of a weaker nation Economic-inspired by desire to control global trade and commerce Social/cultural- based on desire to influence a territory to adopt the cultural values and social customs of the imperialist country	7
142024920	Indentured servants	People that worked in return for payment of their passage	8
142024921	Indian civil service	Th viceroys elite; staffed almost completely by Englishman, although some Indians served in low-level bureaucratic positions	9
142024922	Indian national congress	Group of educated and ambitious Indians that aimed to create a larger role for Indians in the civil service	10
142024923	David livingston	Christian missionary; A well known explorer and missionary of Africa for over 30 years. He wrote about Africa with more sympathy and less bias than most writers of his time.; Scottish missionary, goes missing for 6 years in Congo Basin, found by Henry Morton Stanley in 1871	11
142024924	Muhammad ali	...	12
142024925	Nawabs	...	13
142024926	Panama canal	...	14
142024927	Cecil rhodes	...	15
142024928	Falmouth roy	...	16
142024929	Scientific racism	...	17
142024930	Scramble for africe	...	18
142024931	Sepoys, sepoy rebellion	...	19
142024932	Settlement colonies	...	20
142024933	Social darwinism	...	21
142024934	Herbert spencer	...	22
142024935	Shaka	...	23
142024936	Henry stanley	...	24
142024937	Suez canal	...	25
142024938	Tropical dependencies	...	26