| A | B |
| markets and raw materials | motives for imperialism |
| Robert Clive | famous nabob |
| Hindus and Muslims | religious groups in India |
| Sepoys | Indian soldiers working for England |
| British Raj | British rule over India |
| Indian National Congress | nationalist movement against the British |
| Indian Civil Service Exam | British method for staffing colonial government |
| Ming Dynasty | Chinese government after the Mongols |
| Manchu Dynasty | Qing Dynasty |
| Opium War | Chinese war with the West (1839) |
| Taiping Rebellion | religiously based uprising against Chinese government |
| Boxer Rebellion | secret society trying to push West out of China (1900) |
| Ottoman Empire | Sick Old Man of Europe |
| Janissaries | elite Ottoman troops |
| sultan | ruler of Ottoman Empire |
| Tanzimat Reforms | culminated in writing an Ottoman Constitution |
| Young Turks | organization advocating westernization in the Ottoman Empire |
| Balkans | Christian area formerly part of Ottoman Empire |
| Shaka Zulu | South African leader |
| mfecane | African term referring to intense struggle |
| Henry Francis Fynn | European who visited the Zulus |
| E. A. Ritter | European who heard Zulu tales as a child |
| Scramble for Africa | European race to colonize Africa |
| hammering | European method of forcing Africans to submit |
| cash crops | new economic basis for many imperial colonies |
| cash taxes | a way to force non-Europeans into a cash economy |
| Blaise Diagne | African who was elected to French government |
| shogun | leader of Japan's military government |
| daimyo | Japanese local rulers |
| Confucianism | philosophy popular in Japan and China |
| Diet | name of Japanese legislative body |
| Triple Entente | alliance of France, Britain, and Russia |
| Triple Alliance | alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy |
| Franz Ferdinand | Austrian archduke who was assassinated |
| fox holes, barbed wire, tanks | features of trench warfare |
| total war | war involving all of society |
| Lusitania | British ship sunk by the Germans |
| League of Nations | Wilson's idea for international cooperation |
| Treaty of Versailles | settlement after World War I |
| unconditional surrender | Germany was forced into this in 1918 |