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| A country or area under the full or partial political control of another coutnry and occupied by settlers of that country. |
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| A state that is controlled and protected by another state |
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| A country or area in which another country has power to affect developement although it has no formal authority. |
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| Term associated with the expansion of Euoropean powers and their conquest and colonization of African and Asian societies in 16th - 19th centuries |
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| Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism |
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| 1916 book written by Vladimir Lenin in which he describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism |
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| Rudyard Kipling's poem describing the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies |
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| The action of surrendering or ceasing to resist a demand; Special rights granted by Ottoman government. |
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| Members of revolutionary party in the Ottoman Empire who carried out the revolution of 1908 and deposed the Sultan Abdul Hamid II |
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| 1878 meeting of leading statesmen of Europe and Ottoman in the wake of Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 to reorganize the countries of the Balkans. |
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| Berlin Conference of 1885 |
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| November 1884-February 1885; European countries met in Berlin to figure out how to divide Africa among themselves. |
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1st 1880-81 Boers fought England to regain independence they gave up to obtain British help against Zulus.
2nd 1889-1902 when Orange Free State adn Transvaal declared war on Britain. |
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| aka Fashoda Incident; 1898 diplomatic dispute between Great Britain and France over claims to area in Fashoda, Sudan that almost erupted in war. |
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| Indian soldiers serving under British or other European orders |
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| The Hindu practice of a widow throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre as an indication of her devotion to him. |
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| aka Sepoy Mutiny; 1857 uprising of Indians against British rule |
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| aka Anglo-Chinese Wars; 1st - 1839-42, 2nd - 1856-60; Disputes over opium trade and diplomatic relations between China under the Qing Dynasty and British Empire. |
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| The legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its normal boundaries. Also being immune from the jurisdiction of a nation |
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| Boxer Rebellion / Uprising |
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| 1899-1901; Anti-foreigner, anti-West uprising in China largely caused by foreign influence in religion, politics and trade. |
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| 1904-1905; War between Russia and Japan caused largely by rivalry over Korea and Manchuria |
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| 9/5/1905; Treaty that formally ended the Russo-Japanese war; Both Russia and Japan agreed to evacuate Manchuria; Japan emerged as a world power. |
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