| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Balance of Trade | difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports |
| Boxer Rebellion | event in 1900 in which a group known as the Boxers assaulted foreigners across China to drive out their un-Chinese ways |
| Cash Crop Economy | economy based on the raising and selling of one crop or a small number of crops |
| Cultural Diffusion | spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another |
| Extraterritoriality | right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation |
| Imperialism | domination of one country by the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| Indian National Congress | group formed by Hindu nationalist leaders of India in the late 1800's to gain greater democracy and eventual self-rule |
| Indigenous | original or native to a country or region |
| Interdependence | mutual dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world |
| Mercantilism | policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver |
| Missionary | someone sent on a religious mission |
| Modernization | building a stable government while developing a country economically |
| Muslim League | group formed by the Muslims in India in the early 1900's to protect Muslim interests |
| Opium | narcotic originating from poppy seeds |
| Opium Wars | conflict between Britain and China in 1839 over the Opium trade |
| Parliament | representative assembly of England |
| Partition | divide |
| Protectorate | country with its own government but under the control of an outside power |
| Sati | Hindu custom that calls for a wife to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral pyre |
| Sepoy | Indian soldier serving in the army set up by the British or French East India Companies |
| Sepoy Rebellion | rebellion fought by Sepoys against British rule in India in the mid 1800's |
| Social Darwinism | applied the idea of survival of the fittest to war and economic competition; belief that some races were more "fit" than others |
| Sphere of Influence | area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges |
| Suez Canal | 100-mile waterway that links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea |
| Tariff | tax on imported goods |
| Trade Deficit | situation in which a country imports more than it exports |
| White Man's Burden | the idea that it is the responsibility of people of European descent to take care of people of other races due to their perceived superior culture, technology, government, etc. |
| Westernization | adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture |
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