Imperialism

Question 1

imperialism

Answer 1

domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

Question 2

protectorate

Answer 2

country with its own government but under the control of an outside power

Question 3

sphere of influence

Answer 3

area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privledges

Question 4

missionary

Answer 4

someone sent on a religious mission

Question 5

elite

Answer 5

upper class

Question 6

pasha

Answer 6

provincial ruler in ottoman empire

Question 7

genocide

Answer 7

deliberate attempt an entire religious or ethnic group

Question 8

concession

Answer 8

special economic rights given to a foreign power

Question 9

sati

Answer 9

hindu custom that called for a wife to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral pyre

Question 10

sepoy

Answer 10

indian soldier who served in an army set up by the french or english east india company

Question 11

viceroy

Answer 11

representative who ruled one of spain’s provinces in the americas in the king’s name; one who governed in india in the name of the british monarch

Question 12

deforestation

Answer 12

destruction of forest land

Question 13

purdah

Answer 13

isolation of women in separate quarters

Question 14

trade surplus

Answer 14

situation in which a country imports more than it exports

Question 15

indemnity

Answer 15

payment for losses in war

Question 16

extraterritoriality

Answer 16

right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation