Chapter 11

Question 1

The Indian soldier serving under British command

Answer 1

Sepoy

Question 2

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

Answer 2

paternalism

Question 3

idea that in time, the local populations would become absorbed into French culture

Answer 3

assimilation

Question 4

a foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands

Answer 4

geopolitics

Question 5

a conflict, lasting from 1853 to 1856, in which the Ottoman Empire, with the aid of Britain and France, halted Russian expansion in the region of the Black Sea

Answer 5

Crimean war

Question 6

a manmade waterway connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, which was opened in 1869

Answer 6

Suez Canal

Question 7

an 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India

Answer 7

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 8

the British controlled portions of India in the years 1757-1947

Answer 8

Raj

Question 9

British colony of India- so called because of its importance of the British Empire, both as a supplier of raw materials and as a market for British trade goods

Answer 9

jewel of the crown

Question 10

the lands surrounding the Pacific ocean- especially those in asia

Answer 10

Pacific Rim

Question 11

leader of the Filipino nationalists

Answer 11

Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 12

the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

Answer 12

annexation

Question 13

last monarch of Hawaii and Hawaii’s only queen

Answer 13

queen Liliuokalani

Question 14

a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially

Answer 14

imperialism

Question 15

the belief that one race is superior to others

Answer 15

racism

Question 16

survival of the fittest-justification for imperialist expansion

Answer 16

social darwinism

Question 17

a meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa

Answer 17

Berlin Conference

Question 18

Zulu chief who created a large centralized state

Answer 18

Shaka

Question 19

dutch colonists in south africa

Answer 19

boers

Question 20

a migration of dutch colonists out of British- controlled territiory in South Africa

Answer 20

great trek

Question 21

a conflict lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in south Africa

Answer 21

Boer War

Question 22

agricultural crop which is grown for sale

Answer 22

cash crop

Question 23

division of labor and money in human society

Answer 23

caste system

Question 24

cure for malaria

Answer 24

quinine

Question 25

local government officials were used to govern

Answer 25

indirect control

Question 26

ruled india with little interference from british government

Answer 26

British East India Co.

Question 27

technological advancements that made the intrusion into the African continent possible

Answer 27

maxim gun, railroads and steamships, cure for malaria, communication cables