Companies and Conspiracies
Queen Elizabeth granted this company royal charter in 1600 giving it a monopoly on England's trade with India.
Modern day Ethiopia
Abyssinia
Spainards born in Mexico
Criollos
System wher farmers were allowed to raise only cash crops, at the expense of other agricultural products. This use of land led to countries becoming this. (a lack of agricultural diversity)
Monocultures
In a short story, O. Henry coined this term to describe small Central American countries under the economic power of foreign-based corporations. These countries were politically unstable states with an economy dependent upon the exportation ofa limited-resource product
Banana Republics
Dutch East India Company
Native Indian soldiers who were recruited by the British
Sepoys
These people have ben in Australia for an estimated 50,000 years and have the oldest ocntinuous culture on Earth.
Aboriginal
The demand for raw materials that could be processed into manufactured goods and shipped-away often back to the providers of raw materials, turned colonies into these types of economies
Export Economies
In 1830, the Dutch government introduced this, which formed farmers to choose between growing cash crops for export or performing corvee labor.
Culture System
People who present theories as science that are actually incompatible with the scientific method.
Pseudoscientists
A Country founded by formerly enslaved people from the United States
Liberia
In New Zealand, these people were newcomers, having arrived from Polynesia in the 14th century.
A process that eliminated the problems of rubber in hot and cold climates and helped create the rubber industry.
The poppies from which this is obtained grew easily on South Asia's fertile lands and selling it to the Chinese became very profitable for Britain.
Opium
Some thinkers adapted the theory of biological evolution to society, creating the theory known as this. This theory argued that the spread of European and U.S. power proved the biological superiority of whites. Writers and politicians then used it to justify further imperialism by powerful coutnries.
Social Darwinism
Descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers who moved east of the Cape Colony (South Africa) and came into conflict with indegenous groups, including the Zulus with whom they fought several wars
Afrikaners
"Guided One" who would resotre the glory of Islam
Mahdi
Rising and growing food to live on, with perhaps little left over to sell.
A situation in which foreign business interests have great economic power or influence.
Economic Imperialism
People who studied skull sizes and shapes, believed that a smaller skull size proved the mental feebleness of Africans, Indigenous Americans, and Asians
Phrenologists
Ancient name of Sri Lanka
Ceylon
From 1811 to 1858, the British fought these natives of South Africa who did not want to be ruled by Europeans.
Xhosa
Racial segregation that plagued South Africa during the 20th century.
Apartheid
Slave Labor