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| imperialism | the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| protectorate | country with its own government, but under the control of an outside power |
| sphere of influence | an area in which an outside power claimed |
| new imperialism | European's path of aggressive expansion into China, India and Africa in the 1800s |
| direct rule | sending officials and soldiers to administer a colony |
| indirect rule | using sultans, chiefs, or other local rulers to administer a colony |
| missionary | someone sent on a religious mission |
| elite | upper class |
| pashas | provincial rulers |
| genocide | deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
| concession | special economic rights given to foreign powers |
| sati | a Hindu custom that called for a woman to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral fire |
| sepoy | Indian soldier who served in army set up by the French or British East India Company |
| viceroy | one who governed in India in the name of the British |
| deforestation | cutting of trees |
| purdah | isolation of women in separate quarters |
| trade surplus | a country exporting more than it imports |
| trade deficit | a country importing more than it exports |
| indemnity | payment for losses in a war |
| extraterritoriality | right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own country |
| cash crop | product that can be sold on the world market |
