AP World History Chapter 18 Flashcards
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8987538527 | Scramble for Africa | The European countries' partition of the continent of Africa between themselves in the period 1875-1900. | 0 | |
9088508479 | Indian Rebellion | 1857-1858 Massive uprising of much of India against British rule; also called the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoy Mutiny. The rebellion first broke out among Indian troops serving the British. | 1 | |
9093297439 | Congo Free State/Leopold II | Leopold II was king of Belgium from 1865 to 1909; his rule as private owner of the Congo Free State is the worst abuse of Europe's second wave of colonization, resulting in millions of deaths. | 2 | |
9093324486 | cash-crop agriculture | Large scale agricultural production of crops for sale in the market, rather than for consumption by the farmers themselves. | 3 | |
9093334997 | apartheid | The system that developed in South Africa of strictly limiting the social and political integration of whites and blacks. | 4 | |
9093353411 | colonial tribalism | A European tendency, especially in African colonies, to identify and sometimes invent distinct "tribes" that had often not existed before, reinforcing European idea that African societies were primitive. | 5 |