Module 17 Lesson 1 & 2 Vocab

Match the following

• Social Darwinism

• the belief that one race is superior to others.

• racism

• the application of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies—particularly as justification for imperialist expansion.

• imperialism

• a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.

A meeting in 1884–1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa.

• The Split Africa Meeting

• Berlin Conference

• Congress of Vienna

• Munich Conference

Founder of the Zulu Empire; he reorganized the army and introduced new fighting tactics. He subdued neighboring peoples, consolidating an empire that encompassed most of southern Africa.

A Dutch colonist in South Africa.

• Zulu

• Boer

• Afrikaner

• South African

A conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in South Africa.

• The Desert War

• Boer War

• African War

• World War 1

Match the following

• protectorate

• A country or a territory governed internally by a foreign power

• Economic Imperialism

• A country or a territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power

• colony

• An independent but less-developed country controlled by private business interests rather than other governments

• Sphere of Influence

• An area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges

A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights.

• paternalism

• maternalism

• familialism

• assimilation

the adoption of a conqueror’s culture by a conquered people

• accute reaction

• paternalism

• assimilation

• defeatism

Emperor of Ethiopia after 1889; he gained Ethiopian independence from Italy in 1896. (a)  

• Menelik II
• Gandhi
• Hulka
• Tupac Amaru