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CORE 1220: SHAPING OF THE MODERN WORLD ● BROOKLYN COLLEGE ● FALL 2012

CHAPTERS 32 REVIEW SHEET

CHAPTER 32 KEY TERMS & NAMES

Foundations of Empire

• Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)

• Rudyard Kipling (1864-1936)

• “White Man’s Burden” (1899)

• mission civilisatrise

Tools of Empire

• Railroads

• Telegraphs

• Suez Canal (constr. 1859-1869)

• Panama Canal (constr. 1904-1914)

• breech-loading firearms

• Maxim gun (adopted 1880s)

India, Central Asia & Southeast Asia

• Death of Aurangzeb (1707)

• British East India Company (outright conquest begins 1750s)

• Sepoy Rebellion (1857)

• British Imperial Rule (1858)

• sati (banned by British East India Company in 1829)

• Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901)

• “The Great Game”

• Philippines (Spain)

• Dutch East Indies

• Burma, Singapore, Malaysia (Britain)

• Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos (France)

Africa

• “Scramble for Africa” (1875-1900)

• Dr. David Livingston (1813-1873) & Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)

• King Leopold II of Belgium (r. 1865-1909)

• Congo Free State (Belgian Congo after 1908)

• British seizure of Egypt (1882)

• Cape Town (founded by Dutch East India Company in 1652)

• Boers/Afrikaners

• British seizure of South Africa (1806)

• voortrekkers/ “The Great Trek” (1830s-1840s)

• South African or Boer War (1899-1902)

• Union of South Africa (1910)

• Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885)

• Battle of Omduran (1898)

• Frederick D. Lugard (1858-1945)

New Imperial Powers: U.S. & Japan

• Monroe Doctrine (1823)

• U.S. Purchase of Alaska (1867)

• U.S.S. Maine (sunk Feb. 15, 1898)

• Spanish-American War (1898-1899)

• William McKinley (1843-1901)

• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

• Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964)

• “Roosevelt Corollary” (1904)

• Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)

• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

Empire & Society

• Maji Maji rebellion (1904-1905)

• scientific racism

• Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882)

• Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

• Ram Mohan Moy (1772-1833)

• Indian National Congress (1885)

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