DVP UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW Flashcards
Test date: 10/31/24
Nationalism
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country
Belief in the superiority of one’s nation or ethnic group.
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Diffusion
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another
The reliance of people and countries around the world on one another for goods and services
Global Interdependence
The application of ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
Social Darwinism
1 Cause of Imperialism
Economic
Religion, civilization, medicine and Christianity
Guns
Main technological advantage Europeans had over non-western states
Strategy of Colonization used by Great Britain. Local governments were allowed, and limited self rule. Eventually the colonies would be able to rule themselves.
Indirect control
type of control where foreign officials were brought in to rule
Direct control
Country with its own government but under the control of an outside power
Protectorate****
Mulattoes
People of African and European descent. At the bottom of the Spanish America social structure
Cortes
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
traveled with French explorers and claimed land in what became New France
Fur traders
Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class.
Peninsulares
Moctezuma
Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes.
Religion, civilization, medicine and Christianity
European “Blessings” of Western Civilization
Descendents of Spanish-born but born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, economic status. 2nd in the Spanish America social structure
Creoles
Capitalism
An economic system based on private ownership of capital and the investment of money to make a profit
Tariff
A tax on imported goods
plantations
Huge farms that required a large labor force to grow crops
Guns
Main technological advantage Europeans had over non-western states
immunity
Resistance to disease
A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.
Zulu
African rulers
viewed slaves as a sources of income, raided enemy villages to capture slaves and sold them to European slave traders
Country with its own government but under the control of an outside power
Protectorate
A governor/general exercising authority on behalf of a sovereign in a province or colony
Viceroy
Sphere of Influence
A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities.
