Unit 12 Vocab Flashcards
The take over of a country or territory by a stronger nation with the intent of dominating the political economics and social life of the people of that nation
Imperialism
The idea that one race is superior to others or some races are below others
Racism
The theory that non Europeans were considered to be on a lower scale of cultural and physical development because they did not have ten technology that Europeans had
Social Darwinism
Conference were 14 European countries met to prevent fighting over the division of Africa
Berlin Conference of 1884 and 1885
Zulu chief
Shaka
Dutch settlers
Boer
The movement of boers north to escape the British
Great Trek
War between the British and the boers
Boer War
The idea that the Europeans had to govern people in a fatherly way by providing for their needs but not giving them rights
Paternalism
The idea that the local populations would become absorbed into french culture
Assimilation
Emperor of Ethiopia
Menelik the Second
An interest in oral taking of land for its strategic location or products
Geopolitics
War between the Russians and the Ottoman Empire with the British and french by there side
Crimean War
Man made waterway that cut through the isthmus of suez
Sues Canal
Indian soldiers
Sepoy
