Unit 6 MOKP and vocab Flashcards
Imperialism
Policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries.
Extraterritoriality
The right of foreign residents to live under the laws of their native country and disregard the laws of host … Europeans in China and Ottoman
Sphere of Influence
Outside power claims exclusive trading or investment in like ports and usually forced
Social Darwinism
Justification for imperialism and application of Charles Darwin and evolutiokn
Economic imperialism
Independent but less developed nations controlled by private business.
White Dominions
Colonies where the overwhelming majority of populations were white..small number of native inhabitants.
Protectorate
A country or territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power.
Contested Settler societies
Large-scale European settlements despite existence of developed native population.
Ethnic enclave
Geographic area with high ethnic concentration cultural identity economic activity..like a residential area.
Monoculture
Agricultural practice of growing only one crop, plant, or livestock species.
Diaspora
A scattered population who came from a different place…
White man’s burden
Phrase the originated from Rudyard Kipling’s poem..used by white cylinders to justify their alleged duty to care for the nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
Banana Republic
Politically unstable country with an economy dependent entirely on revenue from exporting single product or resource..like banks..it’s also a derogatory term.
Dowager Cixi
Chinese empress and regent who controlled late Qing
Mangal Pandey
1827 Sepoy soldier who played a key part in the events immediately before the start of the Indian Rebellion.
Meiji Emperor
Emperor of Japan who ruled over period of change and political reforms..more power..japan industrializes 1852
Commodore Matthew Perry
1794 played a key role in opening Japan to the west…father of the steam navy in US.
Shaka Zulu
Founder of Southern Africa’s Zulu Empire who reformed the Zulu army and their military tactics.
Muhammad ALi
Egypt guy..self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan.
Cecil Rhodes
1853-1902 English born South African businessman responsible for helping claim much of Africa for Great Britain from Cape Town to Cairo.
Queen Victoria
Longest reigning monarch of uk
King Leopoldo II
1835-1909 King of Belgium and sole owner of the Congo Free State in Africa, where he used forced labor to acquire rubber.
Lin Zexu.
Chinese governor general under the Qing emperor who forcibly opposed the opium trade, ultimately claimed for the First Opium War – the result which ultimately humiliated china
Menelik II
1844 emperor of Ethiopia whose policies created modern Ethiopia – victory in the Battle of Adwa allowed Ethiopia to defeat Italy and stop the Europeans from trying to control Ethiopia
Hong Xiuqian
1814-1864 Leader of Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty; he established the taiping himself the “Heavenly king” and brother of Jesus Christ.
Hiram Maxim
1840-1916 American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first portable fully automatic machine, the Maxim gun which allowed the British and other European powers to forcibly take territory with little loss to themselves.
Ferdinand de Lesseps
French diplomat and developer of the Suez Canal which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas thereby reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia.
Theodore Roosevelt
Monroe doctrine warned erysipelas powers to keep out of the americas…us had the right to exercise military force in Latin American countries to keep Europeans out.
James K polk
President 11th for extending territory of US during Mexican American war.
