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 advantage

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 1757-1947.

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.