| Term | Definition |
| Emilio Aguanaldo | leader of guerilla forces in the Philippines, fought against American troops (NOTE: Bell said to know this one) |
| Stamford Raffles | colonial administrator who found British colony on Singapore |
| King Mongkut and Chulalongkorn | rulers of Thailand who introduced Western learning and maintained relations with major European powers |
| George Dewey | American Commodore who defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay (Philippines) |
| William McKinley | American President who decided to turn Philippines into an American colony after agonizing over the morality of his decision |
| Albert Beveridge | American Senator from Indiana who gave a speech about the mixture of moral idealism and the desire for profit |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | British administrator who brought new school system, wrote "Minute on Education" |
| E.M. Forster | British writer of "A Passage to India," a novel that described Britain and India's cultural collision |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker | Dutch colonial official who wrote a critique of their colonial system |
| Albert Sarraut | Colonial official who advised patience awaiting full benefits of colonial policy |
| Porfirio Díaz | dictator of Mexico from 1876 to 1910 who established conservative and centralized government |
| Francisco Madero | liberal landowner who became President of Mexico, criticized for not going far enough with land reforms |
| Emiliano Zapata | sharecropper who demanded agrarian reform in Mexico |