the british empire Flashcards
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prism
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a transparent object which distorts light, used to show the distortion from certain viewpoints
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East India Company
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a british company granted trade rights with india, the worlds largest company
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idealogical argument
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to do with ideas/beliefs
the intent to expand the empire
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economic argument
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to do with money and trade
control of resources
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territorial argument
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to increase land under your control
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exploit
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take advantage for your own benefit
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commissioned
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given a job by someone to produce something
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imperial
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to do with empire
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province
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a territory which belongs to a country or colony but is locally governed by
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subcontinent
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the region of asia, india, pakistan, bangladesh and nepal
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punjabi
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to do with punjab
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amritsar
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a holy city for sikhs, in punjab
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bagh
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a punjabi word for park or garden
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transportation
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a punishment for criminals invoking them being sent to australia for forced labour
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penal colony
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a settlement for prisoners used to isolate them from the general population
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aborigine
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a person native to australia or tasmania
-aboriginal culture was tribal
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intentionalist
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the belief tha an action was planned from the start
e.g. genocide
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functionalist
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the belief that an action was shaped by events and circumstances, instead of being planned out
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compliance
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following rules and instructions without resistance
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geopolitics
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politics and power and how it is influence by geographical tactics/ locations
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trillion
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one thousand billion
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famine
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a period of time when food is in short supply, not enough to live
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cape
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the southern tip of africa
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controversial
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a topic on which people have different views
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treaty
an agreement between two or more nations often relating to peace or trade
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longitude
the measure of your east/west position on the earth
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perspective
a view held by a person
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contemporary
from the time
e.g. someone writing at the time of empire would be a contemporary writer
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perceptions
what people think about a certain topic
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narrative
the way a story is told( the dominant view of a topic)
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democracy
a form of government where the people choose their leaders
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polarised
moved further apart from eachother
polarised views would be very different
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reparations
money paid from one country to another compensating damage they have previously done
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queen victoria
British queen at the height of the empires power and influence for 63 years and empress of india
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queen elizabeth II
ruled during the last the few days of the empire and saw the transition to the commonwealth
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rudyard kipling
poet and author born to a british family in india strong defender of empire saying it was good
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winston churchill
british prime minister during world war II
minister for the colonies and war
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warren hastings
easy india company figure who was britain’s first governor general in bengal, establishing british rule
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robert clive
east india company military leader
-his victory in the battle of plassey established british control of bengal
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reginald dyer
British general who have order to fire the crowd in amritsar-jallianwala bagh massacre
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sir alfred stephen
british general in tasmania, responsible for establishing martial law leading to tasmanian genocide
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john pope-hennessy
british governor of hong-kong
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hans sloane
anglo-irish antiquities collected, his collection formed the bases of natural history and british museum
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edward colston
trader of enslaved people who became the focus of the movement to remove statues linked to slavery
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Who is Sathnam Sanghera
He wrote the book empireland and made the documentary called empire state of mind about the empire
-he is a sikh from punjabi parents, born in 1976
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what are some of the places mentioned in big steamers, a poem by rudyard kipling?
vancouver(canada)
quebec (canada)
melbourne (australia)
hobart(tasmania, australia)
hong kong (china)
punjab(india)
bombay(mumbai,india)
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akan drum, ghana
ceremonial drum taken on a slave ship to america, acquired by sir hans sloane
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bark shield, australia
shield used by aboriginal australians around the time of their colonisation by britain
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feather helmet, hawai
saved red and yellow helmet, indicating wealth
-acquired by british in 1778
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tea set, Britain
decorative yea set probably owned by britain’s queen adelaide
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chronometer, Britain
instrument used to calculate location at sea, from darwin’s HMS beagle
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dear skin map, america
native american (Piankshaw) map used as part of a negotiation with british traders
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buffalo drum, Sudan
instrument from south sudan, moved north as a part of the slave trade route.
captured by Britain from the Mahdi, a muslim leader in sudan
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what are some of the colonies the british empire took over and through what?
australia and canada, through military might
singapore and the caribbean, economic influence
india, both
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genocide
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnicity with the aim of destroying that nation or group e.g. the holocaust
-mass killing
-actively planned
-consistent
-aimed at a certain nation/ethnicty
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what are some cases of genocide
the black war in tasmania
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what did organisations do?
organisations such as the east india company took wealth from colonies to britain
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when did the british empire begin and why then?
the british empire began at different times depending of prisms such as
-the ideological argument (intent to expand)
-the economic argument(control of resources)
-territorial argument (increased control of land)
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why did the british empire have different experiences?
resources- how much that country supplied to britain
race- how racist the british were
geopolitics- how beneficial that country was to the empire
compliance- how well that country and the british got along
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what are the different opinions (both positive and negative) based on?
current events such as brexit and black lives matter
and perspectives, depending on what you know and your status
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empire
group of countries ruled by one country
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colony
collection of people ruled by someone else
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racism
being rude about someone’s race
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what was the sikh experience of empire?
the sikhs were respected and treated better than other colonised groups by the british
-the sikhs were loyal to britain
-sikhs have an important role in british military and shaping what it means to british
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the sikh experience (massacre)
the jallianwala bagh massacre happened on the 13th april 1919 when between 15 to 20,00 men women and children intentionally resisted the raj (britain’s rule) so general dyer ordered rhe soldiers to shoot and they kept going till everyone was gone
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How was britain and the sikh’s relationship?
They first had a very good relationship but then after the massacre caused it to worsen a lot
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the tasmanian black war (the british genocide)
europeans hunted aboriginals for sports and pleasure and were treated as sub humans
-britain established a penal colony
- europeans weren’t punished for this
then martial law was announced against the aboriginals
-the british wanted to exterminate the aboriginals
-the british tried to seem innocent by claiming they were partly terrorised
christians tried to help the aboriginals but then the project died and was abandoned
the tasmanians were left to fend for themselves and were dumped in a penal settlement and were observed by anthropologists
king billy lanney was an alcoholic sailor who is known to be the last full blooded tasmanian and died in 1869
-his grace was ransacked and his skull snatched
the british COMPLETELY wiped out the population
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the statue debate
for-statues should be taken down because the people got they got their wealth form the slave trade (edward colston) and churchill’s in colbert in the bengal famine
against-statues shouldn’t be taken down as we shouldn’t get rid of our history’s even if it’s bad
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the republicanism debate
for-many countries cut ties with the monarchy and many countries that aren’t republics aim to become one as the don’t like king charles
against-many countries aren’t republics because of the commonwealth and are pausing the discussion after the queens death
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the apology debate
for-many people have called for a formal apology and some have already been made
against- people don’t want to make formal apologies as they weren’t the ones that decided to make these terrible decisions
