4º ESO: Unit 6. Imperialismo - Glosario

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Aquí os dejo la lista de palabras y expresiones que debéis tener presente de cara al estudio de esta unidad. Espero que os sea de utilidad. 

Acculturation: Adoption of the ways of a different culture

Agricultural Products: Things that are grown in large quantities to be sold

Balance of Trade: The difference in value between a country’s exports and imports

Big stick: The threat of using force to get something

British East India Company: A private business which first traded with India and later ruled it.

British Raj: The period of British rule in India

Civilise: To improve a society so that it is better organised and more developed

Colonial Exploitation: Unfairly using colonies to obtain power or wealth

Coloniser: A person who settles in a place and takes control over it

Colonisation: Settling in a place and taking control over it

Colony: A country occupied and controlled by another country (the metropole)

Dominion: A self-governing colony whose population came mainly from the metropole

Economic Interests: Policies or practices which tend to make a person or country richer

Expand: To make larger or to become larger

Export: To sell products to another country

Forced labour: Making people work against their will for little or no money

Imperialism: Increasing a country’s wealth and power by colonising other countries

Import: To buy products from another country

Indigenous Population: The native people in a colonised country

Manufactured Products: Things made on a la large-scale using machinery

Metropole: The parent state of a colony

Monoculture: The cultivation of only one crop in a given area

Monopoly: Exclusive possession of control over something

Opium Wars: 19th century wars fought between European powers and China over trade and diplomatic relations

Plantation: A large area of land where a single crop (e.g. cotton or tea) is grown

Political and military rivalry: Competition between countries to gain political and military supremacy

Prestige: High status or good reputation

Protectorate: A colonised country with its own indigenous government, but where the metropole is really in control, especially of defence and foreign policy

Raw Materials: The basic materials from which a product is made

Sepoy Rebellion: The revolt in 1857 of Indian soldiers in the British army in India

Settlement Colony: A colony with a small native population, settled mainly by white Europeans

Social segregation: When people of different classes in society have to live separately and cannot mix

Transoceanic canal: A manmade waterway connecting two oceans or seas