3rd Qtr EXAM Flashcards
It is the acquisition
of lands for commercial
and religious motives.
COLONIALISM
It is a policy of
extending a country’s
power and influence
through diplomacy or
military force.
Imperialism
In 1500s, India was ruled by a lot or groups the most prominent was the
Mughal empire
Portuguese voyager
who first opened the
Business source for
European countries.
VASCO DA GAMA
A commercial enterprise
granted by Queen
Elizabeth. To disrupt the
Dutch monopoly of spice
trade in the East Indies.
ENGLISH EAST INDIA
COMPANY
separated
from the Mughal
control until it was
dissolved into
anarchy, leaving a
power vacuum in the
country.
Maharajahs
is a
situation when no one
is in control.
Power Vacuum
In 1757 Robert Clive led the defeat of indian forces
Battle at Plassey
The British East India
Company transformed
from a trading company
to a_____________ in
India.
ruling power
first British
Governor General to rule
India. He was succeeded by
Lord Cornwallis.
Warren Hastings –
stating that the British would
collect land revenues from the
Indian landlords called
Zamindars.
Permanent Settlement Act
Permanent Settlement Act
stating that the British would
collect land revenues from the
Indian landlords called
________________
Zamindars.
Widespread rebellion against British rule in
India begun by Indian troops (sepoys) in the
service of the British East India Company.
THE SEPOY MUTINY
British restricted
Indian-owned
industries,
especially
hand
loom textile
industries.
did the
transporting of
raw materials to
and from the
plantations and
ports to be
brought to
Britain.
Railroad
networks
British rule was
able to outlaw the
female infanticide.
is a practice among
Hindu communities
where a recently
widowed woman,
either voluntarily
or by force,
immolates herself
on her deceased
husband’s pyre
Sati/Suttee
it was a secret
religious society
(cult) centered in
India. They spoke in a
secret language and
members gathered
and worshiped the
Hindu goddess Kali
Ma with barbaric
human sacrifices at
secret temples.
Thuggee –
The great Empire
of the Turks was
created by the
Osman dynasty.
Osman the First
established a Beylik
which is now
(present day Turkey)
● Expanded power to East
Europe and Mesopotamia
● 15 million people
● Golden Age of Islam
Suleiman the Magnificent
1912, the Ottomans lost its European Territories in
the
Balkan Wars
Sequence of
conversation made
through letters
between Hussein bin
Ali and Sir Henry
McMahon.
McMahon-Hussein
Correspondence
A secret agreement
between the
governments of Britain
and France consented
by the Russian Empire.
Sykes-Picot Agreement
Britain’s concern was
to keep its route to India safe and open.
Perpetual Maritime Truce –
Letter created on November 17,1917 by the British
government.
Balfour Declaration
were considered to be one of the
most influential families of all the Jewish families.
The Rothschilds
Upon reading the Balfour Declaration, Jews
immediately emigrated to
palestine
It is the concept of loyalty towards
a nation. It is the identification of
one’s own nation and support for
its interests.
Nationalism
Millions of Indians were
encouraged by the British to
enlist in the British army
with the promise of
SWARAJ.
It is an act granted the
British the right to suppress
revolutionary acts against
its government.
Rowlatt Act
the Indians (Hindus, and
Muslims) gathered in Amritsar to protest against the
Rowlatt Act of the British.
AMRITSAR MASSACRE –
British commander at Amritsar,
Gen. Reginald Dyer
He is an experienced politician
and an international journalist,
a law practitioner in South Africa
“Mahatma Mohandas
Gandhi “
Gandhi’s Principles
Service
Religious Toleration
Live Simple
Non violence
civil
disobedience or a process of
refusing to obey an impartial
law.
Satyagraha –
Gandhi rallied his followers to make
their own salt and walked through the
240 miles up to the Indian seacoast to
make their own salt.
The salt march
This act granted for the Indian local
self-government and limited democratic
elections.
India Act
The Turks who established
the Republic of
Turkey
It is a
modernization philosophy
that guided the transition
between the Ottoman Empire
to the Republic of Turkey.
KEMALISM -
signed on
October 29,1923 established the
Republic of Turkey with Mustafa
Kemal as its first president.
Treaty of Lausanne –
stresses on the separation
of the church and the state.
A secular government
- a term for
ideological and political Arab
nationalism.
PAN ARABISM
It is a religious and political
effort that brought thousands
of Jews from around the
world back to their ancient
homeland in the Middle East
and re-established Israel as
the central location for Jewish
identity.
Zionism
a Hungarian
Jew, in his book “The Jewish
State” popularized the idea of
Zionism.
Theodor Herzl –
Jewish government
system in Palestine. The Zionists
conflict with the Arabs then urged
plans for a separate and independent
Jewish state on Palestinian land.
Jewish Agency -
● It is the capacity to identify issues and
problems in the way societies look at
gender.
GENDER SENSITIVITY
● granted Indian women the right to vote
● forbid polygamy, and recognized
divorce by mutual consent.
● tolerating male Muslims to have four
(4) wives
The Indian Constitution of 1950
International Women’s Day is celebrated
every
8th of March
Developed an infrastructure investment in
Bangladesh that enhanced and increased
women’s representation in 35
municipalities in 2003.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
is a small financial loan
extended to entrepreneurs and
micro-enterprises to poor to qualify for
conventional bank loans.
Micro-credit
promoted a stronger role
for women in national governance.
In their economic system, women have
become vital as factory workers.
South Asian Women
Parliamentarians Conference
The Arabian Peninsula had been
known as very patriarchal.
All Saudi women regardless of age, are
required to have a male guardian
● Women do not exercise the right of
suffrage
● They cannot be elected to high positions
in the government
● They are not even allowed to drive
Feminist Movement in Turkey
Polygamy was banned,
divorce and inheritance
rights were made equal.
It is the first country to
have a woman as President
of its Constitutional Court in
the person of Tulay Tugcu.
The Knesset, mandated
the establishment of
“The Committee on the
Status of Women.”
__________% of seats in the
government and
education sectors are
reserved for Dalits.
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It is the control of
less-developed countries
by developed countries
through indirect means.
NEOCOLONIALISM
The process by which
businesses or other
organizations develop
international influence or
start operating on an
international scale.
GLOBALIZATION
This theory states that
underdevelopment
continue to exist because
developed countries are
still dominating the
economy of the
underdeveloped countries.
DEPENDENCY THEORY
are disguised as a sort of help from
developed nations.
Foreign aids
The desire of wealthy nations
to control other nation’s
values and through cultural
means in the form of media,
language, education, and
religion, leading ultimately
to the element of colonial
mentality.
CULTURAL THEORY
