THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM VOCABULARY 2

1.Raw materials

 1. An unprocessed natural product used in manufacture.

2.Imperialism

 2.A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically or socially.

3.Racism

 3. The belief that one race is superior to other.

4.Social Darwinism

 4.The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest”to human societies- particularly as justification for imperialist expansion.

5.Evolution

 5.A gradual process in which something changed into a different and usually more complex or better form.

6.Fittest

 6.Most suited to conditions and more likely to stay alive.

7.Enable

 7.To make possible.

8.Berlin Conference of 1884

 8.A meeting at which repress negatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa.

9.Claim

 9.Demand as being one’s property.

10.Cash Crops

 10.A readily salable crop that is grown and gathered of the market.

11.Shake

 11.Cull Chief who created a large centralized state against British invaders.

12.Boers

 12.Dutch colonies in south Africa.

13.Great Trek

 13.A migration of Dutch colonist out of British controlled territory in South Africa during the 1830’s.

14.Boer War

 14.A conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the British fought for control of south Africa.

15.Colony

 15.A land controlled by a distant nation.

16.Protectorate

 16.A state or territory partly controlled by ( but not a possession of ) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs.

17.Sphere of influence

 17.A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities.

18.Economic Imperialism

 18.Foreign business companies continue to exploit the resources of less development nations.

19.Indirect Rule

 19.Colonial policy in which the traditional local power structure, or at least part of it, is incorporated into the colonial administrative structures.

20.Paternalism

 20.A policy of treating subject people as if they were children,providing for their needs but not giving them rights.

21.Paternalism

 21.Who work in organization,especially governmental organization.who work in organizations, especially governmental organization.

22.Assimilation

 22.The social process of absorbing one culture group into harmony with another.

23.Policy of Association

 23.Colonial powers recognized local institutions and culture but regarded them us inferiors.

24.Menelik II

 24.Emperor of Ethiopia who successfully defeated the Italians and maintained his nation’s independence.

25.Contempt

 25.A willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority.

26.Kinship

 26.Connection by blood or marriage or adoption.

27.Factions

 27.Groups within a large group, especially one with slightly different ideas from the main group.

28.Geopolitics

 28.A foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic location or product of other lands.

29.Land locked

 29.Surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land

30.Suez Canal

 30.A manmade waterway connecting the Red sea and Mediterranean sea which was opened in 1869.

31.Crimean War

 31.A conflict lasting for 1855 to 1856, in which the ottoman Empire,with the aid of Britain and France, halted Russian at poison in the region the Black Sea.

32.Buffer

 32.Somebody or something that reduces shock or impact or protects against other harm.

33.Concessions

 33.A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business.

34.British East India Company

 A seventeenth- century joint-stock company founded to trade with India to Britain's advantageseventeenth centuryjoint-stock company tradeIndia Britainadvantage

35.Sepals

 35.An Indian soldier serving under British command.

36.Jewel in the crown

 36.Referring to India as England’s most profitable company.

37.Self Sufficiency

 Able to satisfy one’s basic needs without help.

38.Garrison

 A fortified military post were troops are stationed.

39.Sepoy Mutiny

 On 1857 rebellion of India and Muslim soldiers against the British in India.

40.Raj

 The British controlled portions and India in the year

41.Viceroy

 Governor of a country who rules as the representative of his or her king.

42.Pacific Rim

 The countries and landmasses surrounding the pacific Ocean, often considered as a socioeconomic region.

43.King Mongkut

 Ruler of Thailand was able to keep out colonial control.

44.Emilio Aguinaldo

.Filipino nationalist who fought for independence, first from Spain,then from the U.S.

45.Annexation

 The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.

46.Queen Liliuokalanl

 Ruler who tried to restore the political power of Hawaiians.