Imperialism

4. A time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster. The production of food rose dramatically.
6. The modernization and industrialization of Japan in the 1800's
8. A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
9. A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa
10. belief that one race is better than others.
11. A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.

1. The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
2. An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
3. An economic system based on private ownership of capital
5. A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
7. A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.