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| 52752485 | Muhammad Ali | Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor, but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952 | 0 | |
| 52752486 | Janissaries | Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826 | 1 | |
| 52752487 | Serbia | The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s | 2 | |
| 52752488 | Tanzimat | "Restructuring" reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers, intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureaucracy more efficient | 3 | |
| 52752489 | Crimean War | Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion, Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans. | 4 | |
| 52752490 | Extraterritoriality | The right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native country and disregard the laws of the host country. In the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries, European and American nationals living in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right. | 5 | |
| 52752491 | Young Ottomans | Movement of young intellectuals to institute liberal reforms and build a feeling of national identity in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century | 6 | |
| 52752492 | Slavophile | Russian intellectuals in the early nineteenth century who favored resisting western European influences and taking pride in the traditional peasant values and institutions of the Slavic People | 7 | |
| 52752493 | Pan-Slavism | Movement among Russian intellectuals in the second half of the nineteenth century to identify culturally and politically with the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe | 8 | |
| 52752494 | Decembrist Revolt | Abortive attempt by army officers to take control of the Russian government upon the death of Tsar Alexander I in 1825 | 9 | |
| 52752495 | Opium War | War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories. | 10 | |
| 52752496 | Bannerman | Hereditary military servants of the Qing Empire, in large part descendants of peoples of various origins who had fought for the founders of the empire | 11 | |
| 52752497 | Treaty of Nanking | The treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire, denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders, opened additional ports of residence to Britons and ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain | 12 | |
| 52752498 | Treaty Ports | Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the treaty ports, foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality | 13 | |
| 52752499 | Most-favored-nation Status | A clause in a commercial treaty that awards to any later signatories all the privileges previously granted to the original signatories | 14 | |
| 52752500 | Taiping Rebellion | The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion that threatened to topple the Qing Empire | 15 | |
| 52929661 | Zulu | A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united in 1818 | 16 | |
| 52929662 | Sokoto Caliphate | A large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria | 17 | |
| 52929663 | Modernization | The process of reforming political, military, economic, social, and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies, often with regard for accommodating traditions in non-Western societies | 18 | |
| 52929664 | "Legitimate" trade | Exports from Africa in the nineteenth century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade | 19 | |
| 52929665 | Recaptives | Africans rescued by Britain's Royal Navy from the illegal slave trade of the nineteenth century and restored to free status | 20 | |
| 52929666 | Nawab | A Muslim prince allied to British India; technically, a semi-autonomous deputy of the Mughal emperor | 21 | |
| 52929667 | Sepoy | A soldier in South Asia, especially in service of the British | 22 | |
| 52929668 | British raj | The rule over much of South Asia between 1765 and 1947 by the East India Company and then by a British government | 23 | |
| 52929669 | Sepoy Rebellion | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs | 24 | |
| 52929670 | Durbar | An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century,ostensibly in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire | 25 | |
| 52929671 | Indian Civil Service | The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men, it gradually added qualified Indians | 26 | |
| 52929672 | Indian national Congress | A movement and political party found in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until WWI. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Ghandi, it appealed increasingly to the poor, and it organized mass protests demanding self-government and independence | 27 | |
| 52929673 | Clipper Ship | Large, fast, streamlined sailing vessel, often American built, of the mid-to-late nineteenth century rigged with vast canvas sails hung from tall masts | 28 | |
| 52929674 | Contract of Indenture | A voluntary agreement binding a person to work for a specified period of years in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most indentured servants were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians | 29 |
