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World History Volume 2, from 1400

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World History Volume 2, from 1400Key Terms

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Boxers
members of the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists, an anti-foreign secret society in northern China
Congo Free State
a personal colony of Belgium’s King Leopold II where infamous abuse of African laborers took place
deindustrialization
a decline in a nation’s or region’s industrial activity
export economy
an economy that primarily provides raw materials for use by other nations
Force Publique
a native army commanded by European officers to enforce brutal discipline in the Congo Free State
imperialism
the policy of gaining direct or indirect control over parts of the world with low-cost resources and no competing mass-produced goods
Meiji Restoration
the period beginning in 1868 when, under Emperor Meiji, Japan began to industrialize
Scramble for Africa
the competition among European countries to establish colonies in Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
shogunate
a Japanese system in which a military leader, the shogun, and an aristocratic military elite, the samurai, ruled in place of the emperor
The Great Game
the contest between Britain and Russia to dominate central Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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