Ch 18 Flashcards
(11 cards)
Swami vivekanada
One of the 19th – century India’s most influential religious figures. He helped propel Hinduism into the religion we know it as today by unifying and bringing out the notion of a religion for India as a nation.
Edward blyden
Hey West African born in the west Indies and educated in the United States later became a prominent scholar and political official in Liberia, he defined an African identity by praising the differences between African and European cultures. He excepted the assumption that the world’s various races were different but argued that each had its own distinctive contribution to make to world civilization.
Africanization of Christianity
African converts continued to use protective charms and medicines and consulted local medicine men, all of which helped form a new African style of Christianity
Wanjiku
A Kenyan woman who endured brutal British colonialism.
The western educated elite
European presents created a small group of people who embraced European culture and lifestyle. Through learning Western European education these African or Asian people were able to get access to better paying jobs, as well as they had an elite status within their communities
Cash crop agriculture
The growing of crops so that they may be exchanged for money through exports rather then used within the community. Cash crops were troublesome because they made communities overly reliant on trade with other countries, as well as susceptible to widespread crop damage and global market fluctuations.
Cultivation system
When colonizers forced colonized people to cultivate cash crops???
Congo Freestate/Leopold the second
The most infamous cruelty of forced labor in the 20th century. The Congo Freestate was governed by King Leopold the second of Belgium. He starved Congo workers, as well as treated them disrespectfully and far inferior. When production and rubber harvesting was not enough he would send soldiers to the towns to kill people and cut their limbs off. His cruelties were publicized in Europe where they forced government action and increased public awareness of cruelty
The Indian rebellion
The most famous rebellion during colonial times. It was triggered by the use of animal fat from cows and pigs by the colonies military forces. Because Hindus venerated cows and Muslims regarded pigs as unclean, both groups viewed the innovation is a plot to render them to files and convert them to Christianity. Indians across the country rebelled, prompting the British to become more cautious when deliberately trying to change Indian society and comments British government to take direct control over India, ending the era of the British East India Company rule of the subcontinent
The scramble for Africa
The partitioning of the entire African continent amongst six European nations in the time period of 25 years. Technology and power allowed Europe the ability to take African territory by fours and many European countries participated in the claiming of African land because this land acquisition was seen as extremely beneficial to the conquering countries economy
European racism
Europeans combined physical differences and new scientific differences to label themselves as superior to other races. Europeans viewed their own Mobile expansion as an inevitable result of the natural of growth of the superior civilization. They felt that they had the duty just civilize other inferior race is. Using the key concept of social Darwinism and survival of the fittest as justification
