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| Imperialism | method of increasing a nation’s power by acquiring foreign territories |
| Colonies | territories ruled directly by imperialist powers |
| Protectorates | territories that have their own government, but are guided by foreign powers |
| Spheres of influence | regions where an imperialist power possesses exclusive trading rights but does not govern |
| Suez Canal | connected Europe to Asia by connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas |
| East India Company | powerful British trading company that dominated India |
| Boxer Rebellion | Chinese conflict to expel all foreign control |
| Opium War | war between China and Britain to stop the smuggling of Opium into China. Britain won. |
| Boer War | Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus |
| Sepoy Rebellion | Indian soldiers serving under British command in India revolted against the British |
| assimilation | the absorption of a culture into the prevailing culture |
| David Livingstone | Christian missionary who provided a great deal of information on Africa to Europe |
| Berlin Conference | the meeting of European countries to establish ground rules for acquiring land in Africa |
| Rudyard Kipling | author of White Man’s Burden, a poem about European imperialism in the late 1800’s |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | US naval officer who convinced Japan to open its ports for trade |
| Liberia | country in West Africa that avoided European domination through its strong ties with the US |
| Indian National Congress | first Indian nationalist party founded in the mid 1800’s |
