Ch. 1.1 & 1.2 Vocab

woz int hist

Imperial

Belonging or relating to an empire or the person or country that rules it.

Mercantilism

A trade practice wherein nations maintain a favorable balance in trade by increasing exports and decreasing imports.

Entrepeneurs

Someone who organizes a business(es), taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

Deflation

Reduction of the general level prices in an economy.

Monopoly

The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

Nationalism

Identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interest of other nations.

Geopolitics

The study on how geography affects politics and international relations.

Leopold II

He was the second king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. He committed very bad things to the people of Congo.

Suez Canal

An artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. A 193.30 Km canal.

Commerce, Christianity, Civilization

Three C’s

Berlin Conference

1884-1885, The major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa.

Genocide

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Patriotism

Devotion and vigorous support for one’s country.

Racism

Prejudice or discrimination on the base of someone’s race or ethnic group. A sense of superiority of one race over another.

Fashoda

A small town in SE Sudan, on the white Nile. There was a conflict of British and French Colonial interests here in 1898.

British and the French met here by accident, both accused each other of unwarranted aggression, and both came to an agreement. France recognized that the Brits owned Sudan while the Brits recognized that the French had Morraco.

Algeciras Crisis

Conference 1906 convened in Algeciras Span, to resolve the first Moroccan Crisis over German attempts to break up the Angio-French entente.

First Opium War

Anglo-Sino War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839-1842.

China banned imports of Opium and the British wanted to equalize the import of Opium and the export of tea in China.

Second Opium War

A colonial war lasting from 1856-1860, which pitted the British Empire and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China.

The British wanted the legalization of Opium in China, also Brit. and Fr. wanted more legal and territorial concessions in China.

Taiping Rebellion

A big civil war in China between the Manchu led Qing Dynasty and the Hakk led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

First Sino Japanese War

A conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily over influence in Korea.

Boxer Rebellion

Anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China in 1899-1901, near the end of the Qing dynasty.

Paul Kruger

A South African politician who was also one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th century SA.

State president of SA republic from 1883-1900.

Boer Wars

A conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa from 1899 to 1902

Scorched Earth

Military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy to be able to fight in a war.

Treaty of Shimonoseki

Agreement that concluded the first Sino-Japanese war 1894-1895, which ended in China’s defeat.