One of the fenced-in or hedged-in fields created by wealthy British landowners on land that was formerly worked by village farmers
What is an enclosure?
100
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is psychology?
100
A country or territory governed internally by a foreign power
What is a colony?
100
An interest in or taking of land for its strategic location or products
What is geopolitics?
100
In Marxism, the working class, the "have-nots"
What is the proletariat?
200
Workers in Britain who responded to the replacement of their labor with machines by attempting to destroy those machines, named after a fictional worker
Who were the Luddites?
200
Polish physicist and chemist who pioneered the field of radioactivity and is the first and only person awarded the Nobel Prize in two different sciences
Who is Marie Curie?
200
An area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges
What is a sphere of influence?
200
A war fought between the Russians on one side and the Ottoman, French and British on the other that revealed the Ottoman Empire's military weakness and precipitated its decline
What is the Crimean War?
200
Scottish political economist and philosopher who wrote the Wealth of Nations
Who is Adam Smith?
300
Acts of 1799 and 1800 that outlawed unions and strikes
What were the Combination Acts?
300
English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics
Who is Joseph Lister?
300
A form of imperial management in which local government officials are used, there is limited self-rule, and government institutions are based on European styles but may have local rules
What is indirect control?
300
A member of a Polynesian group that settled New Zealand about 800 C.E.
What is a Maori?
300
The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
What is urbanization?
400
A highly religious man and member of Parliament who led the fight for abolition, the end of the slave trade and slavery in the British Empire
Who is William Wilberforce?
400
The father of modern genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
400
Belgian King who brutally exploited Africans in the Congo
Who is King Leopold II?
400
The only African country that successfully resisted European control
What is Ethiopia?
400
Perisan ruler Jamal al-Din al-Afghani set up a boycott of this product in an attempt to oppose imperialism by Britain
What is tobacco?
500
A nation in the British Empire that is allowed to govern its own domestic affairs
What is a dominion?
500
Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements
Who is Dimitri Mendeleev?
500
A policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs
What is assimilation?
500
An unofficial nationalist military force seeking independence for Ireland fro Great Britain
What is the Irish Republican Army?
500
The term used for the geopolitical struggle between Great Britain and Russia over Muslim lands in Central Asia