Strayer Chapter 18 Flashcards

9336936545	European Racism	Europeans began to use scientific methods to back up why they should be in power, Belief that whites are generally just superior	0
9336936546	Scramble for Africa	European countries fought each other for rapid colonization of Africa, used both negotiation and military tactics to win land	1
9336936547	Indian Rebellion	People were protesting the influence of Christianity and military tactics and defending Hinduism	2
9336936548	Congo Free State	took millions of lives of locals by forcing villagers to collect rubber, massive use of forced labor	3
9336936549	Leopold II	Belgian king who ruled the Congo free state	4
9336936550	Cultivation system	Peasants were forced to cultivate specified cash crops and meet tax requirements by the state, helped the Dutch but really hurt the natives	5
9336936551	cash-crop agriculture	production of crops for sale on the global market, such as sugar or coffee, interfered with the production of food crops in the colonies, had many environmental consequences	6
9336936552	Western-Educated Elite	Ability for social mobility and interaction with the government, Africans and Asians who were literate were seen as a lot more valuable and often adopted elements of Western Culture	7
9336936553	Wanijuku	Woman who experienced a changing of times into British control, and although being circumcized, was married and became Christian, further living a Western life	8
9336936554	Africanization of Christianity	African customs merged with Christianity to be more appealing and to involve more mystical practices	9
9336936555	Swami Vivekananda	Influential Indian religious leader who used Hinduism to unite his country and offer a sense of community	10
9336936556	Edward Blyden	Believed that every race had a specific contribution to make, and it was the distinguishing feature between societies	11