Basic Terms
Belonging to another country or born outside your own?
Foreign
Resources in their original form like coal, sugar, or iron ore.
The process where the strong survive and the weak die.
natural selection
A person who tries to change others to his or her own faith.
missionary
What was the cause of "new imperialism"
Industrial Revolution
Good or helpful results
benefit
A place where people can buy or sell goods.
Markets
The act of changing something, especially beliefs.
convert
An enemy or someone you are fighting against.
rival
What does "nationalism" mean
people who have major support for their nation keeping the nations interest in mind
The Western Hemisphere: the Americas.
New World
Another word for European culture
Western Culture
A belief that one’s culture is superior.
Enthonocentrism
People sent to spread religion to other lands.
missionaries
what did Europeans compete for?
power, land and resources
A problem or something difficult to deal with.
Burden
When something is proven to be right or innocent.
justified
To threaten with a really bad punishment, such as death.
comminate
The practice of controlling people or territories for benefit.
imperialism
What was the poem called written by Rudyard Kipling?
White man's burden
A biased opinion about the world from your own perspective.
Ethnocentrism
Using someone unfairly for your own gain (hint: the definition here was “to blackmail”).
exploit
What is capitalism
a system where people, not the government, own businesses and property to make money
Whose theory was "Natural Selection"?
Charles Darwin
what does "xenophobia" mean?
Dislike or prejudice against people from other countries