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| A seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country |
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| The belief that one race is superior to another race |
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| Non-Europeans were considered to be on a lower scale of cultural and physical development because they had not made the scientific and technological progress that Europeans did |
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| 14 nations met in Berlin to discuss and lay down rules for the division of Africa - done without thought of how African ethnic or linguistic groups were distributed |
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| A Zulu chief who created a large centralized state using highly disciplined warriors and good military organization |
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| Dutch settlers who gradually took Africans' land and established large farms |
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| A modern "total" war between the British and the Boers over lands in Southern Africa |
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| Governing people in a paternal way by providing for their needs but not giving them rights |
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| Local populations would adopt the conquerer's culture and customs |
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| The most valuable of all of Britians' colonies |
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| An 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India |
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| British rule after India came under the British crown during the reign of Queen Victoria |
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| Allowed the government to jail protesters without trial for as long as 2 years |
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| Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts |
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| An Indian leader who emerged during the independence movement; his ideas blended the major world religions; used the process of civil disobedience to help gain independence |
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| Deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence |
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| A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Gandhi led his followers on a 240 mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated seawater |
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