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Social Darwinism | the application of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies—particularly as justification for imperialist expansion. |
Racism | the belief that one race is superior to others. |
Berlin Conference | meeting in 1884–1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa. |
Boers | Dutch colonist in South Africa. |
paternalism | a policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights. |
assimilation | the adoption of a conqueror’s culture by a conquered people (p. 205). 2. a policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs |
Geopolitics | a foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands. |
Crimean War | War n. a conflict, lasting from 1853 to 1856, in which the Ottoman Empire, with the aid of Britain and France, halted Russian expansion in the region of the Black Sea. |
Suez Canal | human-made waterway, which was opened in 1869, connecting the Red sea and the mediterranean sea |
Sepoys | an Indian soldier serving under British Command. |
jewel in the crown | the British colony of India—so called because of its importance in the British Empire, both as a supplier of raw materials and as a market for British trade goods. |
Imperialism | taken over of another country |