AP World History- Unit 5 Global Links and Imperialism Flashcards

5992729989	Great Game	The Russian-British rivalry for power in Central Asia	0
5992729990	Imperialism	A country gaining colonies and influence in other places	1
5992729991	Scramble for Africa	European countries took over most of Africa	2
5992730892	Sepoys	Indian soldiers under British employ	3
5992730893	Sepoy Mutiny	A sepoy rebellion over Britain making sepoys violate their religion; British soldiers ended it and India became a full colony	4
5992730894	Raj	The colonial government of India	5
5992731900	King Leopold II	Belgian king who took over Congo	6
5992731901	Congo Free State	The Congo colony	7
5992733039	Berlin Conference	A conference that set rules for establishing colonies in Africa; led to Europian countries taking over almost all of Africa	8
5992733040	Abyssinia and Liberia	The only countries in Africa not taken over	9
5992733957	Zulu Kingdom	Kingdom on the South African coast of the Indian Ocean	10
5992733958	Anglo-Zulu War	War between the Zulus and British; the British eventually won	11
5992734672	Boer Wars	Fight between the British and the Afrikaners	12
5992735478	Roosevelt Corollary	Stated that if countries in Latin America demonstrated instability, the US would feel free to intervene	13
5992736601	Indian National Congress	Indian forum that began to rival Congress	14
5992736602	Pan-Africanism	A developed sense of shared identity and nationalism from Western-educated Africans	15
5992737722	Export Economics	Colonies that produced goods but sent them to mother countries to sell for a profit	16
5992737723	Cash Crops	Profitable crops such as tea, cotton, sugar, palm oil, rubber, and coffee	17
5992737724	Tea	A cash crop that was introduced from China to Europe and became a profitable crop for the British	18
5992738616	Cecil Rhodes	Founder of De Beers Diamonds; investor in a railroad that would go from South Africa to Egypt to connect the British colonies in Africa	19
5992738617	Goa	Portuguese trading post in India	20
5992738618	Pondicherry	City owned by France in India	21
5992739784	Corvee Laborers	Unpaid labor a certain number of days each year	22
5992740714	Indentured Servants	People who agreed to work for a period of years in exchange for transportation to a place	23
5992740715	Penal Colony	A colony used to excite convicts to; Australia became one	24
5992741439	Monocultures	A lack of agricultural diversity; badly damaged African soil	25
5992741440	Quinine	Medicine that treats the tropical disease malaria	26
5992742210	Suez Canal	A canal through Egypt built by the French; shortened the route from Europe to Asia	27
5992742211	Charles Darwin	Came up with the theory of natural selection	28
5992743178	Phrenologists	People who studied skull sizes and shapes; claimed Asian, Africans, and Native Americans were less intelligent	29
5992743179	Social Darwinism	Belief that survival of the fittest meant that whites were superior; came up by Herbert Spencer	30
5992745475	David Livingstone	Christian missionary that went to Sub-Saharan Africa and tried toe end the illegal slave trade	31
5992745476	Afrikaners	Descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa	32
5992746394	Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement	Event where the Xhosa killed all of their cattle and crops in the belief that it would cause the British to leave; caused a famine	33
5992746395	Concentration Camps	Refugee camps that were segregated by race	34
5992746396	Aborigines and Maori	Natives of Australia and New Zealand; most were killed due to disease	35
5992747524	White Australia Policy	Restricted the immigration of nonwhites to Australia	36