ColonizationVocabulary Terms

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• Famine: scarcity or low supply of food and resources

• Partition : to divide (a country or territory) into separate, racial or political groups

• Berlin Conference: 1884 Meeting in Berlin between U.s and Europe to discuss the division of African CountRies and resources

• Colonial Rule: any people or territory separated from their native roots and ruled by another country or power

FAMINE

scarcity or low supply of food and resources

BERLINCONFERENCE

1884 Meeting in Berlin between U.s and Europe to discuss the

division of African Counties and resources

EUROPE UNITED STATES

PARTITIONto divide (a country or

territory) into separate, racial or political groups

DIVIDE

COLONIAL RULE

any people or territory separated from their native roots and ruled by another

country or power

IMPERIALISMpractice of one country’s

controlling the government and economy of another

country or territory

MISSIONARY person who goes to

another country to do religions and social work

COUP D’ ETAT

an overthrow of a government by force

INDUSTRYan area of

economic activity

Colonialismsystem by which a country maintains colonies outside

its borders

NATIONALISMstrong pride in one’s

nation or ethnic group

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