 | Term | Definition |
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Pearson |
british prof who said inferior peoples were to be the stepping stones on which mankind has arisen to higher intellectual and deeper emotional life of today |
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lenin |
theorized that capitalism directly led to imperialism |
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Imperialism, the highest stage of world capitalism |
lenin's book |
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Great trek |
migration of disgusted Beors |
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Free state and Transvall |
the migrated Beors eventually created the... |
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Zulus and XHosa |
african peoples who were oppressed by the British and Beors |
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Rhodes |
British governer who made fortune in gold/dimonds, was asked to resign after trying to overthrow the Beor gov w/out permission |
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make railroad from Cape to Cairo |
Rhodes goal was to " " |
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Union of South Africa |
what was created in 1910 after the Beor war? |
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algeria, french west africa, tunisia, much of morocco |
what was French africa by 1900? |
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Ottoman tripoli |
what was the area that italy conquered? |
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libya |
what did italy rename ottoman tripoli? |
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leopold ii |
nast belgium king who gave up his kingship in order to rule the Congo |
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Sudanese slaughter |
ex. of the non-humanitarianism of european imperialism in africa |
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Battle of Omdurman |
called a "massacre", british machine-gunned a ton of sudanese peeps who were trying to protect their independance |
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Lo Bengula |
South african king who informed Queen Victoria how he was cheated out of his minerals by British businesssmen |
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indian troops in the British army |
who were the sepoys? |
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Sepoy Rebellion |
rebellion in against the E. I. Co., resulted in India being made British empire |
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Quing |
what dynasty was weakening in in china? |
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unequal treaties |
what did china sign after the opium wars? |
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open-door policy |
what did the U.S. make to prevent war over china? |
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Britan, france, germany, russia, the us |
contries who created spheres of influence over china |
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Perry |
guy who forced the Japanese to allow the US diplomatic and trading rights |
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Indochina |
french area in asia (totally worthless! ;D) |
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Saigon and Cochin china |
asian french conquered cities |
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Burma and Malay states |
British dominated asian areas |
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Siam |
only independant asian place |
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Samoan Islands |
first US colony |
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puerto rico, philippines, guam |
US colonies gained after the Spanish-American war |
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McKinley |
pres. who said it was US duty to "educate the filipinos and uplift them and christianize them" |
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democracy, equality, and political freedom |
things the new class of africans wanted |
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political parties |
what did africans begin to organize in hopes of ending foreign rule? |
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own nationality and cultural destiny |
what did the new africans begin to assert? |
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Boxer Rebellion |
major outburst of violence against foreign influence in china |
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foreign missionaries, businessmen, christians, railroad workers |
the Boxers murdered who? |
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beijing |
where did the boxer rebellion take place? |
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British Frenc German Russian US |
contries whose troops attacked beijing to stop Boxer reb |
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Sun Yat-sen |
leader who overthrew the Manchus in 1912 |
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nationalism democracy and socialism |
what did Sun Yat-sen hope to bring to china? |
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shogun |
who ran Japan before 1868? |
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Mutsuhito |
who was the new emperor of japan? |
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samurai rebellion |
what led to the restoration to the emperor in japan? |
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Meiji |
what did Mutsuhito name his reign? |
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westernize |
what did japan begin to do during the Meiji restoration? |
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authoritarian |
even though the japanese had a supposedly democratic gov, it was really... |
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Sino-Japanese war |
what happened in asia from 1894-95? |
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Russia |
with whom did Japan have a war in 1905? |
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Korea |
what did japan make a colony after 1905? |
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british civil servants |
who directed matters in india? |
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brought order and technology |
what did british rule in india do that was positive? |
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Indian National Congress |
what did the Indians create instead of having another rebellion? |
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Kipling |
guy who wrote "White Man's Burden" |
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Maham |
wrote history books on dominance of seas |
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Morel |
wrote "Black Man's Burden" |
