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world history XII
the begining of WWI
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History
9th Grade
11/21/2008

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Imperialism
Definition
seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country
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who was david livingstone and what did he do in his lifetime?
Definition

He was a missionary from scotland, he traveled with a group of africans deep into centeral Africa to promote christianity

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Who was Henry Morton Stanley and what did he do in his lifetime?

Definition

He was an american reporter that was sent to find David Livingstone and found him and he was famous because of that.

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Who was Leopld II?

Definition

He was the king of belgium who sent Henry Stanley to make the people from the congo to sign treaties which gave him those lands. 

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Congo

Definition

The Congo is a county in Africa and it is where Leopold II ruled but then was taken away from him by the belguim government because he was treating poeple unfairly.

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Racism/social Darwinism

Definition
Social Darwinism was a social theory of this time that said that people that were non-german were condidered to be at the lower scale of culture and physical development because they had not made the scientific and technological progress that european had made.
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Christian Missionaries
Definition
Missionaries who traveled to convert people into chrisitians. many of them believed that european rule was the best way to end evil practices such as the slave trade.
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Maxim Gun

Definition

It was the first atomatice machine gun ever made in 1884.

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Berlin Confrence

Definition

Was a confrence between European nations that layed down rules for the division of africa. 14 nations attended in 1884-1885

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 Which Africa nations remained

independent?

Definition
Ethiopia and Liberia
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Zulus

Definition
Zulus was a nation in Africa that had a chief named shaka that used highly desciplined warriors and good military orginazation to creat a large centralized state fell to the british control in 1887.
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Boers

Definition
Dutch famers that took african lands to build large farms.
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Boer war
Definition

The Boer war was bettween the british and Boers  because the Boers thought that it was the british fault that foreign people were getting political power and they started the war in

1899. it was the first "total" modern war

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