chapter 24 Flashcards

21784616	Kingdom of Mataram	controlled interior regions of Java in 17th century; Dutch East India Company paid tribute to the kingdom for rights of trade at Batabis; weakness of kingdom after 1670s allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java	0
21784617	Sepoys	troops that served the British East India Company; recruited from various warlike peoples of India.	1
21784618	Raj	regional princes in India following collapse of empire; emphasized military control of their regions.	2
21784619	Plassey (1757)	battle between troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory resulted in control of northern India.	3
21784620	Robert Clive	architect of British victory at Plassey; established foundations of British Raj in northern India.	4
21784621	Presidencies	three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in india; capitals at madras, calcutta, and bombay.	5
21784622	Princely states	domains of indian princes allied with the british raj; agents of east india company were stationed at the rulers' courts to ensure compliance; made up over one third of the british indian empire.	6
21784623	Nabobs	name given to british representatives of the east india company who went briefly to india to make fortunes through graft and exploitation.	7
21784624	Charles Cornwallis	reformer of the east india company administration of india in the 1790s; reduced power of local british administrators; checked widespread corruption.	8
21784625	Isandhlwana (1879)	location of battle fought in 1879 between the british and zulu armies in southern africa; resulted in defeat of british; one of few victories of african forces over western europeans.	9
21784626	Tropical dependencies	.	10
21784627	White dominions	colonies in which european settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population; small numbers of native inhabitants were typically reduced by disease and wars of conquest; typical of british holdings in north america and australia with growing independence in the 19th century.	11
21784628	Settler colonies	areas 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
21784629	White racial supremacy	belief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites; peaked in acceptance in decades before world war 1; supported by social science doctrines of social darwinists.	13
21784630	Great Trek	movement of boer settlers in cape colony of southern africa to escape indluence of british colonial government in 1834; led to settlement of regions north of orange river and natal.	14
21784631	Boer republics	transvaal and orange free state in southern africa; established to assert independence of boers from british colonial government in cape colony in 1850s; discovery of diamonds and precious metals caused british migration into the boer areas.	15
21784632	Cecil Rhodes	.	16
21784633	Boer War (1899-1902)	fought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of boer republics; resulted in british victory, but began the process of decolonization in southern africa.	17
21784634	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.	18
21784635	Kamehameha	fought series of wars backed by british weapons and advisors resulting in unified hawaiian kingdom by 1810; as king he promoted economic change encouraging western merchants to establish export trade in hawaiian goods.	19
21784636	Great Mahele	.	20