The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies-particularly as justification for imperialist expansion
Berlin Conference
A meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa
Boer
A Dutch colonist in South Africa
Boer War
A conflict, lasting from 1899-1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in South America
Scramble
A frantic struggle to obtain something
Paternalism
A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights
Assimilation
A policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and costums
Geopolitics
A foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands
Sepoy
An Indian soldier serving under British command
"Jewel of the Crown"
The British colony on India-so called because of its importance in the British Empire, both as a supplier of raw materials and as a market for British trade goods
Sepoy mutiny
An 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India
RAJ
British rule after India came under the British crown during the region to the territory of an existing political unit
Annexation
The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit