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| Lebensraum | German word meaning the need for land and resources, this is the word they would use to justify murder and genocide. To create land for their people, evident in Germans until after WWII |
| Imperialism | A policy in which a country seeks to dominate other countries politcally, economically or socially |
| Racism | The belief that one race is superior to others, this was evident during imperialism |
| Social Darwinism | The application of Darwin's theories of evolution to human societies, justifying imperialism |
| Berlin Conference | A meeting in which 14 European nations met in order to agree upon the rules for European colonization of Africa |
| European “superiority” | Idea that Europeans were superior to other races of the world based off of their military and technological advantages |
| Boer War | A war in which the Boers and British fought over the territory of S. Africa |
| Paternalism | A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing their needs but not rights. The Europeans did this to Africans |
| genocide | Systematic mass murder of a group of people |
| Assimilation | A policy that forces or encourages a subject people to adopts its culture and institutions (ex. French in Africa) |
| Why Industrial revolution started in Gr. Britain | Resources, political stability, good economy |
| Advantages of Great Britain | large labor supply, political stability, resources |
| Positive/ effects of industrialization | made things cheaper |
| Enclosure movement | Fenced in or hedged fields owned by wealthy landowners, led many village farmers to move to the city to get factory jobs. |
| Urbanization | rise of cities, led to many problems such as sanitary issues, overccrowding, etc |
| Working Conditions | 14 hour days, coal mines, poor health, unsafe machines, no benefits, crowded apartments |
| Child labor | Common during the indust. rev. |
| Communism | Economic system in which all means of production-railroads, businesses, etc are owned by the people, private property does not exist |
| Socialism | an economic system that operate for the welfare of all |
| Stock/corporations | Corp-Owned by stockholders who share in its profits, stock-a piece of the company a stockholder can own |
| Karl Marx/Marxism | Believed in the idea that the Proletariat would overcome the Bourgeoise. He also believed communism was the best form of Gov't. |
| Bourgeouise/proletariat | Bourg- upper middle class people who owned the factories (bosses) Proletariat-Workers who did back breaker work for owners |
| neg. effects of indust. rev | child labor, long hours, little breaks, no worker benefits, |
