Chp. 11

The seizure of a country or territory

The belief that one race is superior to others

The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies-particularly as justification for imperialist expansion

A meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa

A Dutch colonist in South Africa

A conflict, lasting from 1899-1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in South America

A frantic struggle to obtain something

A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights

A policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and costums

A foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands

An Indian soldier serving under British command

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

An 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India

British rule after India came under the British crown during the region to the territory of an existing political unit

The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit