Chapter 27 terms
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- a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially
- Imperialism
- the belief that one race is superior than others
- racism
- the application of charles darwins ideas about evolution and survival of the fittest to human societies - particularly as justification for imperialist expansion
- social darwinsm
- a meeting in 1884 - 1885 at which representatives of european nations agreed upon rules for the european colonization to africa
- berlin conference
- a zulu chief - created a large centralized state
- shaka
- a dutch colonist in south africa
- boers
- a conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the boers and the british fought for control of territory in south africa
- boer wars
- a policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs, but not giving them rights
- paternalism
- a policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs
- assimilation
- a foreign policy based on consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands
- geopolitics
- a conflict, lasting from 1883 - 1856, in which the ottoman empire, witht he aid of britain and france, halted russian expansion in the region of the black sea
- crimean war
- a human-made waterway which was opened in 1869, connecting the red-sea and the mediterranean sea
- suez canal
- an indian soldier serving under brittish command
- sepoys
- an 1857 rebellion of hundu and muslim soldiers against the brittish in india
- jewel in the crown
- the brittish colony of india - so called because of its importance in the brittish emipire, both as a supplier of raw materials and as a market for brittish trade goods
- sepoy mutiny
- the lands thta border the pacific ocean - especially those in asia
- pacific rim
- guided siam to modernize itself
- king monghut
- the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit
- annexation