1. THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM VOCABULARY 2

2. 1.Raw materials

3.  1. An unprocessed natural product used in manufacture.

4. 2.Imperialism

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

6. 3.Racism

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

8. 4.Social Darwinism

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

10. 5.Evolution

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

12. 6.Fittest

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

14. 7.Enable

15.  7.To make possible.

16. 8.Berlin Conference of 1884

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

18. 9.Claim

19.  9.Demand as being one’s property.

20. 10.Cash Crops

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

22. 11.Shake

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

24. 12.Boers

25.  12.Dutch colonies in south Africa.

26. 13.Great Trek

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

28. 14.Boer War

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

30. 15.Colony

31.  15.A land controlled by a distant nation.

32. 16.Protectorate

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

34. 17.Sphere of influence

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

36. 18.Economic Imperialism

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

38. 19.Indirect Rule

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

40. 20.Paternalism

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

42. 21.Paternalism

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

44. 22.Assimilation

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

46. 23.Policy of Association

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

48. 24.Menelik II

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

50. 25.Contempt

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

52. 26.Kinship

53.  26.Connection by blood or marriage or adoption.

54. 27.Factions

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

56. 28.Geopolitics

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

58. 29.Land locked

59.  29.Surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land

60. 30.Suez Canal

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

62. 31.Crimean War

63.  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.

64. 32.Buffer

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

66. 33.Concessions

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

68. 34.British East India Company

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

70. 35.Sepals

71.  35.An Indian soldier serving under British command.

72. 36.Jewel in the crown

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

74. 37.Self Sufficiency

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

76. 38.Garrison

77.  A fortified military post were troops are stationed.

78. 39.Sepoy Mutiny

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

80. 40.Raj

81.  The British controlled portions and India in the year 1757- 1947.

82. 41.Viceroy

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

84. 42.Pacific Rim

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

86. 43.King Mongkut

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

88. 44.Emilio Aguinaldo

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

90. 45.Annexation

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

92. 46.Queen Liliuokalanl

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