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A peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, largely controlled by the French during the Age of Imperialism
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Indochina
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Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s; Britain obtained most of eastern Africa, France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain) acquired lesser amounts; triggered in full by the Berlin Conference
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Scramble for Africa
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A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
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Monroe Doctrine
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A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
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Manifest Destiny
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Used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire before WWI; much of the land in question was land controlled by the failing Ottoman Empire
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The Great Game
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A colony to which convicts are sent as an alternative to prison...best example was Australia for the British Empire
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Penal colony
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A conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Dutch and the British fought for control of territory in South Africa; the Boers, also known as Afrikaners, were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa
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Boer Wars
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In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence; resulted in American victory and taking over Spanish colonies in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
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Spanish-American War
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A drug used for fighting malaria and other fevers; distribution of this drug allowed for the industrialized countries to control areas much easier
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Quinine
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A human-made waterway, which was opened in 1869, connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea; controlled by the Egyptians but construction debt led to the British taking over the project; allows for quicker transportation and economic buildup
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Suez Canal
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Member of Inca aristocracy who led a rebellion against Spanish authorities in Peru in 1780-1781. He was captured and executed with his wife and other members of his family.
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Tupac Amaru II
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Queen of the Asantes (African kingdom) that led the fight against the British in the last Asante war; took power after the king was exiled
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Yaa Asantewaa
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A series of wars that took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand government and the native Maori people; an effect of the growth of the settler colony the British established in New Zealand
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Maori Wars
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(1879) War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. From complex beginnings, the war is notable for several particularly bloody battles, as well as for being a landmark in the timeline of colonialism in the region. The war ended the Zulu nation's independence and was absorbed into the British colony of South Africa.
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Anglo-Zulu War
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Indian troops who served in the British army; were employed by the British East India Company during the indirect rule of India by the British Empire
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Sepoys
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Bird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century
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guano
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The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven...native to India, it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World...it has been a major cash crop in various places, including early Islamic Iran, Egypt, and the United States
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cotton
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Harvested from trees as a sap that was heated into a product used to make tires; became extremely popular due to the invention of the bicycle and the automobile; the major trading good gathered from the Belgian Congo
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rubber
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Large areas of land with a single plant variety
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monocultures
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A device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s, and allowed industrialized countries to hold empires much easier due to advanced communication
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telegraph
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Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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Indentured servants
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An immigrant who signed a contract in Europe to work for an American employer, often to replace a striking worker
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Contract laborers
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A dispersion of people from their homeland
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Diaspora
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Entire Indian families were recruited to emigrate to Southeast Asia to work on tea, coffee, and rubber plantations in Ceylon, Burma, and Malaya; lives were less restricted that those of indentured laborers; six million people moved before the system was abolished
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Kangani system
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