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Ch. 12 - New Imperialism
matching/fill-in quiz 11/6/06
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10th Grade
11/05/2006

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Social Darwinism
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natural selection of society, survival of the fittest
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colinization
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first stage of imperialism
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nationalism
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second stage of imperialism
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independence
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third stage of imperialism
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junta
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military government taking over power by fear
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genocide
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deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group
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Arminian genocide
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the forgotten genocide
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fifth column
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internal struggles
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disease
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killed most people during many wars
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Queen Victoria
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queen during the age of new imperialsim
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British empire
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"the sun never sets on the __________"
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David Livingstone
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man who explored Africa and tried to open it to commerse, civilization, and christianity
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Gladstone
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leader of the libral party in Britain
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Disraeli
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leader of the conservative party in Britain
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"Dr. Livingstone I presume?"
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famous quote by journalist Henry Stanley in Africa 1871
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Suez Canal
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canal linking the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
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India
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"jewel of the empire"
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Rothchild
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man who sold Suez Canal to Britain
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collatoral
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money that the government is gaurenteed to pay back
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rusophobia
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fear of Russia
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Scramble for Africa
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European nation's fight to claim land in Africa
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Cecil Rhodes
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exploited natural resources in South Africa
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Charles Gordon
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British army official who traveled in Africa, China, and India
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New Imperialism
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agressive expansion of Europe during the 1800s
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direct rule
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sending officials and soldiers from the home country to administer to their new colonies
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indirect rule
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using sultans, chiefs or other local rulers to govern their colonies
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imperialism
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the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region
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protectorate
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state where local rulers were left in place but were expected to follow the advice of european advisers on issues
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sphere of influence
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are where outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges
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Asante
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kingdom in West Africa that traded with Europe and controlled smaller states
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Liberia
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independent republic in 1847 founded by some free American blacks
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Berlin Confrence
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where European powers called for free trade on the Congo and Niger rivers and that a European power couldn't claim part of Africa unless government was set up there
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Boer War
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clash of British and Boers in South Africa 1899-1892 that the British won
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Nehanda
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woman from Zimbabwe who was a military leader and inspired later generations to fight for freedom
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jihad
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a holy struggle preached in West Africa to to purify and revive Islam
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Zulus
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people of South Africa united by Shaka who had turmoil in their region
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Sierra Leone
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West African colony for former slaves
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missionaries
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sincere Catholic and Protestant people who sought to win people to Christianity
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King Leopold II
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Belgian king who explored the Congo River region
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Boers
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descendants of Dutch settlers in Cape Colony
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horn of Africa
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area of Africa at the southern end of the Red Sea
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elite
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upper class
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Menelik II
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reforming rler of Ethiopia who modernized it and fought off the Italians in the battle of Adowa
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pashas
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provincial rulers
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concessions
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special economic rights given to foreign powers
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Mahdi
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the long awaited savior of the Muslim faith
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Young Turks
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liberal group of the 1890s who thought that reform was the only way to save the empire
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Armenians
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a Christian people in the eastern mountains of the Ottoman empire who were killed by the Muslim Turks in a genocide
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Muhammad Ali
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"father of modern Egypt" who introduced reforms including cotton trade with the world and expantion into Arabia, Syria, and Sudan
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Qajars
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absolute rulers in Iran from 1794-1925
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sati
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a Hindu custom practiced mainly by the upper classes when a widow would kill herself to join her husband in death; was outlawed by the British
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sepoys
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Indian soldiers in the East India Company's service who were forced to travel overseas
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East India Company
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British organization that won trading rights in India
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Sepoy Rebellion
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brutal massacre of British people in India that put India directly under British rule
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viceroy
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British person in India who governed in the name of the queen
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deforestation
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the cutting of trees
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Ram Mohun Roy
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scholar who thought that India could learn from the West and also wanted to revitalize traditional Indian culture
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purdah
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the isolation of women in seperate quarters
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Indian National Congress
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Congress party; believed in peaceful protest to gain democracy and self-rule
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Muslim League
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Muslim break-off of the Congress party that talked of a separate Muslim state
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balance of trade
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the difference between how much a country imports and exports
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trade surplus
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exporting more than importing
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trade deficit
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importing more than exporting
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Opium War
Definition
British versus Chinese on the importation of a drug into China, which the British won
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indemnity
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payment for losses
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extraterritoriality
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the right of British citizens in China to live under their own laws and be tried in their own courts
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Treaty of Nanjing
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first "unequal treaty" between Britain and China that gave Britain indemnity, Hong Kong, and extraterritoriality
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Taiping Rebellion
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1850-1864 peasant revolt in China led by Hong Xiuquan when many people died trying to establish a "Heavenly King dom of Great Peace" (Taiping); failed in the end
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Hong Xiuquan
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leader of the Taiping Rebellion who was in spired by religious visions and like a revolutionary prophet
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Ci Xi
Definition
empress of China in the late 1800s who was very Confucian
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Sino-Japanese War
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war of China vs. Japan in which Japan won because of modernization
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Hundred Days of Reform
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New laws set out to modernize the civil service exams, streamline of government, and encourage new industries
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Open Door Policy
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a policy to keep Chinese trade open to everyone on an equal basis
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Boxer Uprising
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attack of foreigners in China by the Righteous Harmonious Fists which they lost to western powers and Japan
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Sun Yixian
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spokesman for Chinese republic who organized the Revolutionary Alliance to help rebuild China on "Three Principals of the People"
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nationalism,democracy,and livelihood(economic security)
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Sun Yixian's "Three Principles of the People"
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