| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Algeciras Conference | Conference provoked Germany; backfired on Germany over the issues of the Morocco crisis. |
| Imperialism | One who dominates the political, social, and economic life of another. |
| Belgian Congo | Exploited by Leopold II at Belgium under the Berlin Act, Leopold was supposed to act as a trustee. He violated the agreement and stripped the country of its resources. |
| Boer War | English vs. Dutch settlers in South Africa. England won 1899-02, showed that English tactics were no good. |
| East India Company | Dutch trading company worried about colonizing the world. |
| Congress of Berlin | Assembly of representatives of Germany, Russia, Hungary, Britain, France, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. |
| Fashoda Incident | Conflict in Africa between France and Britain. |
| Cecil Rhodes | Born in 1853, played a major political and economic role in colonial South Africa. He was a financier, statesman, and empire builder with a philosophy of mystical imperialism. |
| Protectorate | Relationship between 2 states in which the stronger state guarantees to protect the weaker state from external aggression in return for full or partial control of its domestic and foreign affairs. |
| Sphere of Influence | In international politics, the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory. |
| The White Man's Burden | 1899, Rudyard Kipling's poem, critical about imperialism. |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad, 1902. The story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. |
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