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| Imperialism | 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 | area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges |
| Sepoy | Indian soldier in an army set up by the French or British East India Company |
| Robert Clive | Architect of British victory at Plassey in 1757, established foundation of British rule in northern India |
| presidencies | three districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India |
| sati | Hindu custom that called for a wife to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral pyre |
| Ram Mohun Roy | Western-educated Indian leader; cooperated with the British to outlaw the sati |
| Opium War | Great Britain v. China; fought to end the trade of an illegal narcotic |
| Taiping Rebellion | Broke out in south China; fought to overthrow the Qing dynasty and Confucian basis of scholar-gentry |
| Self-Strengthening Movement | late 19th-century movement in China to counter the challenge from the West; led by provincial leaders |
| Extraterritoriality | right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation |
| Cixi | ultraconservative dowager empress who dominated the decades of the Qing dynasty |
| Boxer Rebellion | popular outburst in 1898 aimed at expelling foreigners from China |
| Puyi | last emperor of China |
| Matthew Perry | American commodore who visited Edo Bay with American fleet in 1853; insisted on opening ports to American trade |
| Diet | Japanese parliament established as part of the new constitution of 1889 |
| zaibatsu | huge industrial combines created in Japan in the 1890s as part of the process of industrialization |
| yellow peril | western term for the perceived threat of Japanese imperialism around 1900 |
| sepoy | Indian soldier in an army set up by the French or British East India Company |
