AP world history: imperialism vocabulary Flashcards

5798410079	Battle at Plassey	fight between the troops of the British East India company and an Indian army; British victory gave them control of North East India	0
5798410080	Berlin conference	conference that German Chancellor otto von Bismarck called to set rules for partition of Africa	1
5798410081	boers	Dutch settlers in Cape colony in southern Africa	2
5798410082	boer war	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	3
5798410083	Captain James Cook	made voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 resulting in opening of islands to the west; convinced kamehamend to establish unified kingdom in the islands	4
5798410084	Cecile Rhodes	British entrepreneur in southern Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the boer republics	5
5798415934	great mahele	the hawaiian land redistribution proposed by king kamehamena iii in the 1830s and enacted in 1848	6
5798415935	Great trek	movement of boer settlers in cape colony of southern Africa to receive influence of British colonial government in 1834; lead to settlement of regions north of orange river and natal	7
5798415936	Robert Clive	architect a British victory at Plassey; established foundations of British Raj in northern India 18th century	8
5798415937	scramble for Africa	sudden wave of conquest in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s, Britain obtained most of eastern Africa, France most of northwestern Africa	9
5798418804	sepoys	troops that serve the British East India Company; recruited from various were like peoples of India	10
5798418805	settler colonies	areas such as North America and Australia 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	11
5798418806	social Darwinism	survival of the fittest Europeans right to imperialized because they were stronger	12
5798418807	tropical dependencies	Western European possessions in Africa Asia and the South Pacific or small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations	13
5798418808	White man's burden	europeans have a duty to civilize less developed areas because they were stronger	14