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Colonial Rule
Vocabulary
Colonization Facts
100
an extension of political and economic control over an area by a state whose nationals have occupied the area and usually possess organizational or technological superiority over the native population
What is Colonization?
100

another word for imperialism. Taking control of a foreign area to gain power. 

What is Colonialism?

100
During this practice between 1450 and the late 1800s, an estimate 10-15 million Africans were kidnapped, sold, and sent by ship to be forced into labor against their will.
What is the Slave Trade?
100

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

What is a Genocide?

100
A past King of Belgium, one of my nicknames was “Butcher of the Congo” because of the way my colonization brutally enslaved and murder millions of Africans. My name is in the title of the Wicked history from class!
Who is Leopold II?
200
strong identification with pride in one’s country
What is Nationalism?
200

Native or people originating or occurring naturally in a particular place.

What is indigenous?

200
A period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers driven by European desire for economic, social, and military evolution of Europe.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
200
any non-self-governing territory subject to the rule of a usually distant country
What is a colony?
200

What was the event that de-strengthened Europe and allowed the colonies to gain independence

World War II?

300

A community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or decent

What is Ethnic Group?

300

a condition of that compared to a slave in respect to exhausting labor or restricting freedom. 

What is Slavery?

300

List three reasons for the European colonization of Africa?

What is the resources, power, and spread of Christianity?

300
the process of European powers returning the colonies they had taken in Africa and returning them to Africans
What is de-colonization?
300

What was the first colony in Africa to gain independence in 1957?

What was Ghana?

400
the domination of a country’s political, cultural, or economic way of life by another country, usually to exploit resources of the country; also called colonialism
What is Imperialism?
400

evaluation of a cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture. One ethnic group that thinks they are superior to another ethnic group. 

Who is Ethnocentrism?

400
A meeting of European countries in 1884 which divided up Africa into colonies for several powerful European countries.
What is the Berlin Conference?
400

the attempt of one group/culture to change the culture or traits of another group and make them more like them,

What is Assimilation?

400

What two countries remained free in Africa during colonization?

Liberia and Ethiopia?

500
a person who goes to another country to do religious and social work
What is a Missionary?
500

the action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent. 

Decoloniztion?

500

This colony was ruled by King Leopold II. The treatment of the Congolese people was cruel and inhuman. 

What is the Congo?

500
social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by white minority govt of S. Africa
What is apartheid?
500
Two problems that Africa faced after independence. 

What is poverty, political conflict, ethnic conflict, and disease?

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