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| Began in 1880s in Africa, earlier in Asia; in 1800 Europeans controlled about 7% of the world's territory--by 1914 they controlled 84%; Britain's control of Egypt in the 1880s became the model. Major causes include: search for new markets and raw materials, missionary work, and new military and naval bases to protect one's interests against other European powers |
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| The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by establishing economic and political hegemony over other nations. |
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| 1823: USA announced, British navy enforced. Closed the Americas to European Colonialism. |
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| # British merchants and the Chinese clashed over the sale of opium and the opening of Chinese ports to Europeans. The opium war in 1839-1842 led to the British acquisition of Hong Kong and the opening of four cities to trade (the Treaty of Nanking). A second war in 1856-1860 resulted in more gains for Europeans. |
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| Britain's company in charge of trade in India - was able to receive from Mughal court in India the authority to collect taxes from lands in the surrounding areas of Calcutta; set stage for British colonizing India in 1858 |
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| The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. |
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| a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs. This policy was used almost unanimously across the European colonies in Africa. |
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| These are what the countries of Europe wanted by sharing their culture with nations in Asia and Africa. |
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| Title of a prince in Egypt. What Ismail Ali became in 1863. |
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| The group in the Sudan who successfully beat the British |
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| (1904) The cooperation of england and france; French agreed that the English were to control Egypt and the english agreed that the french were to control Morocco |
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| Monarch of Belgium who acquired the Congo in Africa |
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| A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa |
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| British victory over the Mahdi in the Sudan in 1898. General Kitchener led a mixed force of British and Egyptian troops armed with rapid-firing rifles and machine guns. |
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| Involved in the genocide in namibia. Driven into the desert by Germans. known as forgotten genocide. |
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| Movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony of southern Africa to escape influence of British colonial government in 1834; led to settlement of regions north of Orange River and Natal. |
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| A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites |
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| White South Africans that are descendants of Dutch and Germans |
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| Non-Russians, defined as either settled, nomadic, or wandering |
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| Group of three countries (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) that lie in the Caucasus Mountains; all were part of Soviet Union. |
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| 1907: These long-time adversaries settled differences over Persia. Brits recognized Russian sphere of influence in Northern Persia and Russians recognized Brit sphere in Southern Persia. |
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| Peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam |
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| American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) |
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| Drug used for fighting malaria and other fevers |
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| Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this technology was replaced with large submarine fiber optic cables that still today form the basis of most global communication. |
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| The rifle that begins the Sepoy Rebellion because of the grease used on the cartridges. Both Islamic and Hindu Indian citizens refuse to use it because of the rumored pork/beef grease used |
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| Branch of Christianity marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause |
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| Father of modern missions |
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| most important missionary and explorer of Africa in Victorian period, Scottish, went back and forth from Africa over 30 years, abolitionist, 1871 disappeared but was living among Africans, found by Sir Henry Morton Stanley |
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| The scientific institute that sponsored the research leading to the discovery of the etiology and the role of fleas as a vector for the spread of bubonic plague |
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| Showed that Yellow Fever was transmitted by mosquitoes. |
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| discovered area in the brain (named for him) in the left frontal lobe responsible for language production |
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| Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
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