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| "Old" vs "New" Imperialism |
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| 'Old Imperialism' refers to the colonialism prevalent in the sixteenth century when powers like Great Britain, France, Spain, etc began expanding their empires through war and conquest. 'New Imperialism' is a term used to describe colonialism in the present world, where some countries administer foreign countries. |
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| Five Motives for Imperialism. Various motives prompt empires to seek to expand their rule over other countries or territories. These include economic, exploratory, ethnocentric, political, and religious motives. ... Imperial powers often competed with each over for the best potential resources, markets, and trade. |
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| the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. |
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| patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. |
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| the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. |
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| the policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates' supposed best interest. |
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| a state that is controlled and protected by another. |
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| a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority. |
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| a system of government in which a province is controlled by a central government. |
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| a system of government of one nation by another in which the governed people retain certain administrative, legal, and other powers. |
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| The Scramble for Africa was the occupation, division, and colonisation of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914. It is also called the Partition of Africa and by some the Conquest of Africa. |
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| Africa considered as mysterious, especially to Europeans and people of European descent, chiefly when its interior was largely unknown to them. Henry M. Stanley was probably the first to use the term in Through the Dark Continent (1878). |
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The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference (German: Kongokonferenz) or West Africa Conference (Westafrika-Konferenz), regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. |
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| either of two conflicts between Britain and the South African Boers, the first (1880–1881) when the Boers sought to regain the independence given up for British aid against the Zulus, the second (1899–1902) when the Orange Free State and Transvaal declared war on Britain. |
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| the procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves, in particular the former trade in African blacks as slaves by European countries and North America. |
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| (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. |
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| cause (a country, person, or system) to adopt or be influenced by the cultural, economic, or political systems of Europe and North America. |
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| concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare. |
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| n Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) Synonyms: Livingstone Example of: adventurer, explorer. someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) missionary. |
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| Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. |
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| proper noun. (1865–1936), British novelist, short-story writer, and poet, born in India; full name Joseph Rudyard Kipling. He is known for his poems, such as “If” and “Gunga Din,” and for his children's tales, notably The Jungle Book (1894) and the Just So Stories (1902). Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). |
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| Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) reigned as the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and became known for the founding and brutal exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture. |
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| Menelik II. 1844-1913. Ethiopian emperor (1889-1913) who established independence from Italy and expanded Ethiopia's borders through military conquests. |
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| n South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) Synonyms: Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Example of: nationalist leader. the leader of a nationalist movement. |
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| Paul Rusesabagina (Kinyarwanda: [ɾusesɑβaɟinɑ]; born 15 June 1954) is a Rwandan humanitarian who, while working as a house manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, hid and protected 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees from the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide. |
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| a member of a Bantu-speaking people forming the majority population in Rwanda and Burundi. They are traditionally a farming people and were historically dominated by the Tutsi people; the antagonism between the peoples led in 1994 to large-scale ethnic violence, especially in Rwanda. |
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| a member of a people forming a minority of the population of Rwanda and Burundi, who formerly dominated the Hutu majority. Historical antagonism between the peoples led in 1994 to large-scale ethnic violence, especially in Rwanda. |
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| a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively. |
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| intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. |
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| the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. |
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| show or prove to be right or reasonable. |
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| the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. |
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| the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced. |
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