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- Berlin Conference
- European countries divided up Africa for colonization, paying no attention to tribal boundaries. Late 1800.
- Civil Disobedience
- A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered un just.
- White Man's Burden
- belief that Europeans should spread their 'superior' culture to Africians
- Salt March
- passive resistance campaign of Mohandas Gandhi where many Indians protested the British tax on salt by marching to the sea to make their own salt (1930)
- Opium War
- conflict between Britian and China lasting from 1839 to 1842,over British opium trade in China.
- Treaty of Nanking
- unequal treaty between China and Great Britian after the Opium War. Opened up China to trade 1800'sChina had to give Hong Kong to British
- Spheres of Influence
- a foriegn region in which a nation has a control over trade and other economic activities.
- Imperialism
- when one country takes over another for it's natural resources and raw materials.
- Meiji Restoration
- the modernization and industrialization of Japan inthe 1800's
- Mohandas Gandhi
- natinalist leader in India. Used a non violent approach to gain his country's freedom from Britain( Led Salt March