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What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
This is a period of wandering when people leave their ethnic homeland and must live in lands far away. Africans and Jewish people are among groups who have experienced this.
What is diaspora?
Nelson Mandela became the first president of this nation after being imprisoned for 27 years.
What is South Africa?
After the Propaganda Movement didn't work, they took up armed resistance first against the Spanish, then against the Americans and even the Japanese.
Who are the Filipinos?
Move over Belgium. Its monarch took over the Free State of Congo for himself. He was an avaricious and rapacious leader committing mass exploitation and atrocities against indigenous tribes. Belgium decided to take it away from him.
Who is Leopold II?
The Maori fought against the British in these wars over land infringed upon by British settlers. They lost and their land became part of the British Empire along with Australia.
What are the New Zealand Wars?
This is when people give themselves almost as slaves either to pay for passage to a new land and/or work off a debt.
What is indentured servitude/indentured servant?
The invention of these types of ocean vessels as opposed to sailing ships made transoceanic trade much safer and reliable.
What are steamships?
These are the darker skinned indigenous people who inhabited the bush of Australia.
What are aborigines?
This place was considered the "Jewel of the British Crown" and was the leading maker of cotton cloth before long. It was also once ruled by the Mughals before becoming the British Raj.
What is India?
Ho Chi Minh led his people first against the French, and as he went toward communism, he had to contend with the US military in this 20th century war.
What is the Vietnam War?
What are ethnic enclaves?
The United States beat this nation in a war in 1898 and gained control of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is Spain?
These Southeast Asian people, who engaged in tributary trade with China, turned to guerilla warfare in their war for independence from the French.
Who are the Vietnamese?
Motivated by Manifest Destiny, the young United States took land away from many tribes including this tribal nation, who even tried to adopt westernized democratic institutions to survive. It didn't stop the US from taking their land, too.
Who is the Cherokee?
Effort by indigenous Han Chinese to overthrow the Qing (Ching) emperors of China in the mid-19th century. The Qing ruled China for centuries but were originally outsiders from Manchuria. The multi-year rebellion failed and cost China approximately 20 million people.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
When one agricultural product is grown to provide wealth to a colonial power replacing subsistence farming. It made the colonies heavily dependent on importing food and would result in famine and starvation.
What is a cash crop?
These are areas that are not directly colonized and still have their original leaders. However, outside powers dominate sections placing their own political and economic interests ahead of the localities.
What are spheres of influence?
This tribe of South Africa conducted a mass killing of their cattle to fulfill a hoped-for prophecy but resulted in famine and starvation.
What is the Xhosa tribe?
Inhabited by major powers like the Khosa and Zulu, settlers from the Netherlands and then the British infiltrated their territory eventually taking over.
What is Cape Colony or South Africa?
Originally a non-violent insurgency in which Amerindians danced to move the spirits of their ancestors to help the buffalo return and for the whites to disappear. So concerned about it were white Americans that the US government brutally suppressed it during wars against Amerindian tribes.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
Exemption of foreign residents from having to follow the local legal system of the country in which they are residing. It was often a part of the unequal treaties that Western powers imposed upon Asian countries.
What is extraterritoriality?
Popular 19th century theory that promoted the most advanced nations taking over less powerful nations.
What is Social Darwinism?
These islanders migrated from Polynesia and settled in New Zealand making a way of life there before being usurped by Great Britain.
Who are the Maori people?
First it was the Spanish under the leadership of Magellan. Then, it was the United States in the early 20th century. After the US, the Japanese made it part of their World War II empire. It finally became independent on July 4, 1946.
What is the Philippines?