chapter 25 vocab Flashcards
third world
refers to the nonindustrialized nations of africa, asia, and latin america as a single unit
opium trade
the sale of opium -grown legally in british occupied india- by british merchants in china, where the drug was illegal; it became a destructive and ensnaring vice of the chinese
gunboat diplomacy
the use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements
great migration
the mass movement of people from europe in the nineteenth century; one reason that thr west’s impact on the world was so powerful and many-sided
great white walls
laws designed by americans and australians in the 1880s to keep asians from settling in their country
new imperialism
the late nineteenth century drive by european countries to create vast political empires abraod
afrikaners
descendants of the dutch settlers in the cape colony in southern africa
berlin conference
a meeting of european leaders held in 1884 and 1995 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-saharan africa
white man’s burden
the idea that europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite people and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living
great rebellipm
the 1857 and 1858 insurrection by muslim and hindu mercenaries in the british army that spread throughout northern and central india before finally being crushed
meiji restoration
the restoration of the japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of japan
hundred days of reform
a series of western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge
