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Beginning of Britain's Decline (299-307)
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Granville Sharp
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A great British philanthropist who helped many slaves to colonize Freetown in Sierra Leone
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Samuel Adjai Crowther
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The first black bishop of the Church of England
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Liberia
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An African state whose capital Monrovia became the first independent African republic in 1847
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Loutt Carey and Colin Teague
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The first Christian missionaries to Liberia
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William Harris
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The most famous Liberian evangelist who began preaching along the Ivory Coast at age 60
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Khama
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A Christian tribal chief of Bechuanaland who fought hard to protect his people from witchcraft and liquor
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Afrikaners
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Powerful black African tribes which established a thriving colony and even sought to evangelize the native Americans of the region
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Boers
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Encountered black African tribes during south migration and began a long conflict over territory
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Grand Trek
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Thousands of Boers left the Cape and established the Transvaal and the Orange Free State
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Cecil Rhodes
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The British Prime minister of the Cape Colony who incited the Uitlanders to rebellion
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Boer War
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The relationship between the Boers and Britain collapsed in 1899
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Paul Kruger
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President of the Transvaal
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Louis Botha
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A daring Afrikaner general who led the Boers to out-shoot and out-maneuver the British
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1910
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The Boers and British joined to form the Union of South Africa
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Suez Canal
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Gave Britain strong influence and control upon Egypt
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Australia and New Zealand
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Explored by Captain Cook
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Aborigines
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The original inhabitants of Australia
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Australian Gold Rush
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Escalated the rate of colonization in Australia
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1901
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Australia became an independent commonwealth
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Maoris
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Natives of New Zealand who cried out for British action to maintain sanity in their country
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1907
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New Zealand became an independent country with a parliamentary government of her own
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British Commonwealth of Nations
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Canada, Australia, and New Zealand who associated and acknowledged the British monarch as their symbolic head
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Act of Union
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Officially joined England and Ireland
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Catholic Emancipation Act
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Allowed Irish Catholics to vote and sit in Parliament
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potato famine
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A time when one million Irishmen died of starvation
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Ulster
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An Irish province preferring to remain a part of Protestant England.
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1949
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The Irish Free State became independent of the Commonwealth of Nations and established the Republic of Ireland.
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Edward VII
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Victoria's son who ended the Victorian Era with the fall of morality.
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Charles Darwin
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Published On the Origin of Species and invented evolution or Darwinism
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Promoted Darwinism and coined the term agnostic
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materialism
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the idea that matter is the only reality
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Socialism
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The idea that government should own or control a nation's economy in order to provide for its people
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Utilitarians
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Believed that the goal of life is "the greatest happiness for the greatest number"
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Charles Kingsley
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A famous Christian Socialist who popularized Darwinism
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Fabian Society
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Taught that socialism should be achieved by reforms
Founded by George Bernard Shaw and Sidney and Beatrice Webb
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modernism
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believed that the Bible was a myth and full of errors
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