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AP European
Chapter 26
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History
9th Grade
04/18/2009

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Algeciras Conference
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Conference provoked Germany backfired on Germany over the issues of the Morocco crisis

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Imperialism
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One who dominates the political, social and economic life of another
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Belgian Congo
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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
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Boer War
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English vs. Dutch settlers in South Africa, England won 1899-92, showed that English tactics were no good
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East India Company
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Dutch trading company worried about colonizing the world
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Congress of Berlin
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Assembly of reprecentatives of Germany, Russia, Hungary, Britain, France, Italy and the Ottoman Empire
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Fashoda Incident
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Conflict in Africa between France and Britian
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Cecil Rhodes
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Burn in 1853, played a major political and economic role in colonial South Africa. He was a finacier, statesman, and empire bulider with a philosophy of mystical imperialism
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Protectorate
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Relationship between 2 states in which the stronger state gaurantee to protect the weaker state from external aggression in return for full or partial control of mystical imperialism
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Sphere of Influence
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In international politics, the claim by a state to exclusiveo r predominant control over a forgein area or territory
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The white man's burden
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1899, Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The white man's burden", critical about imperialism
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Heart of darkness
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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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