Global 10 - Unit 4 Vocab

an area under the control of another country or empire, usually far away

• colony
• White Man's Burden
• Social Darwinism
• manufactured goods

a group of once separate areas ruled by a single person or government

• empire
• colony
• sphere of influence
• raw materials

another term for colonialism; the domination by one country of the political, economic, and/or cultural life of another country or region; one country taking over another country

• imperialism
• empire
• superiority
• Social Darwinism

items produced from raw materials

• manufactured goods
• imperialism
• westernize
• sphere of influence

an item (usually a natural resource) used to create manufactured goods

• raw materials
• manufactured goods
• White Man's Burden
• superiority

a theory that states that people are engaged in a competition or “struggle for survival” in which the weakest people and nations would be destroyed and dominated while the strong grew in power and influence; some saw the inferority as based on skin color and was used to justify imperialism; the phrase "survival of the fittest" is often attributed to this theory

• Social Darwinism
• raw materials
• colony
• westernize

a country or an area of a country that another country has the power to affect what happens there

• sphere of influence
• Social Darwinism
• empire
• White Man's Burden

the quality or state of being better, higher, or greater

• superiority
• sphere of influence
• imperialism
• colony

to make something or someone more European or American

• westernize
• superiority
• manufactured goods
• empire

the popular idea in the 19th and 20th centuries that Europeans and people of European descent (like Americans) had the responsibility to bring their culture to other parts of the world to “civilize” them

• White Man's Burden
• westernize
• raw materials
• imperialism