Unit 7: Vocabulary Choice Board - Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. Imperialism - The economic analysis of non-economic aspects of life, such as crime, law, the family, prejudice, tastes, irrational behavior, politics, sociology, culture, religion, war, science, and research. Related usage of the term goes back as far as the 1930s.
  2. 3. Rule - When an imperial or central power takes direct control over the legislature, executive and civil administration of an otherwise largely self-governing territory.
  3. 6. Australia Policy - A term encapsulating a set of historical policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic origin, especially Asians (primarily Chinese) and Pacific Islanders, from immigrating to Australia, starting in 1901.
  4. 9. - An international context is a diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.
  5. 11. War - Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory, as distinguished from limited war.
  6. 14. Congo - A Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1964. Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century.
  7. 16. Rebellion - A massive rebellion and civil war that was waged in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Han, Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
  8. 17. Atlantic Treaty Organization Boxer Rebellion - An anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Yìhéquán), known as the "Boxers" in English because many of its members had practiced Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing".
  9. 18. of Influences - A spatial region or concept division over which a state or organization has a level of cultural, economic, military or political exclusivity.
  10. 19. - The state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas, often through employing hard power, but also soft power.
  11. 20. Exclusion Act - A United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. The law excluded merchants, teachers, students, travelers, and diplomats.
  12. 23. Wars - The Opium Wars in the mid-19th century were a critical juncture in modern Chinese history. The first Opium War was fought between China and Great Britain from 1839 to 1842. In the second Opium War, from 1856 to 1860, a weakened China fought both Great Britain and France.
  13. 24. Rule - A system of government of one nation by another in which the governed people retain certain administrative, legal, and other powers.
  14. 25. Marx - A German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital.
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  1. 1. Rhodes - A British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
  2. 4. - A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
  3. 5. Conference - The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, also known as the Congo Conference or West Africa Conference, regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.
  4. 7. - An idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty over its homeland to create a nation-state
  5. 8. A political and economic system in which property and the means of production are owned in common, typically controlled by the state or government.
  6. 10. of Nanjing - The peace treaty which ended the First Opium War between Great Britain and the Qing dynasty of China on 29 August 1842. It was the first of what the Chinese later termed the Unequal Treaties.
  7. 12. A philosophy based on the equitable distribution of wealth among a nation's citizens and common ownership of all property.
  8. 13. Depression - A period of carried long-term economical downturn that is the result of lowered economic activity in one major or more national economies.
  9. 15. - A way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government.
  10. 21. Man’s Burden - "The White Man's Burden", by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War that exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country.
  11. 22. Darwinism - Various theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics, and which were largely defined by scholars in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s.