AP World History Chapter 24 Flashcards
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| 8162864922 | Mataram | Def: Kingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in 17th century | 0 | |
| 8687300761 | Sepoys | Def: Troops that served the British East India Company; Sig: recruited from various warlike peoples of India. | 1 | |
| 8687308003 | British Raj | Def: British political establishment in India; Sig: developed as a result of rivalry between France and Britain in India | 2 | |
| 8687346953 | Plassey | Def: Battle in 1757 between troops of the BEIC and an indian army under Siraj ud-daula; Sig: British victory resulted in control of north India | 3 | |
| 8687405019 | Robert Clive | Def: Architect of British victory at Plassey; Sig: established foundations of the Raj in northern India. | 4 | |
| 8687421584 | Presidencies | Def: Three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India; Sig: Capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay | 5 | |
| 8687434333 | Princely States | Def: Indian princes allied with Raj; Sig: agents of the East India Company: made up over 1/3 of the British Indian Empire | 6 | |
| 8687452616 | Lord Charles Cornwallis | Def: Reformer of the EIC administrations of India in the 1790's; Sig: Reduced power of local British administration; checked wdespread corruption | 7 | |
| 8687488051 | Ram Mohun Roy | Def: Western-educated Indian leader, early 19th century; Sig: cooperated with British to outlaw sati | 8 | |
| 8687536294 | Isandhlwana | Def: Location of the battle fought in 1079 between the British and Zulu armies in south Africa; Sig: resulted in the defeat of the British: one of the few victories of African forces over western Europeans | 9 | |
| 8687565522 | Settlement Colonies | Def: areas conquered and settled by Europeans; Sig: native populations decimated | 10 | |
| 8687576074 | White Dominions | Def: Colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population; Sig: Numbers of native inhabitants were typically reduced by disease and conquest wars | 11 | |
| 8687590303 | White Racial Supremacy | Def: Beliefe in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites; Sig: Peaked in acceptance in decades before WWI | 12 | |
| 8687616845 | Natal | Def: British colony in south Africa; Sig: Developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony: Major commercial outpost at Durban | 13 | |
| 8687639438 | Boer Republics | Def: Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa; Sig: Established to assert independence of Boers from British colonial government in Cape Colony in the 1850's: discovery of diamonds | 14 | |
| 8687665824 | Cecil Rhodes | Def: British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa around 1900; Sig: manipulated political situation in south Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republics | 15 | |
| 8687697344 | Boer War | Def: (1899-1902) a war in which Great Britain defeated the Boers of South Africa; Sig: Began process of decolonization for whites in south Africa | 16 | |
| 8687710590 | Captain James Cook | English explorer of Australia, New Zealand Hawaii, antarctica & West Coast of North America; Sig: Resulted in opening of Hawaiian Islands to the west | 17 |