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| ottoman sultan (1789-1807) attempted to improce administrative efficiency and build a new army and navy; assassinated by the Janissaries | ||
| 19th Ottomon sultan; built a private, professional army; crushed the Janissaries and initiated reforms based on Western precedents | ||
| Western-style reforms within the Ottoman Empire between 1839 and 1876; including a European-influenced constitutionin 1876 | ||
| Ottoman sultan (1878-1908) who tired to return to despotic absolutism; nullified constitution and restricted civil liberties | ||
| Members of the Ottoman Scoiety for Union and Progress; intellectuals and political agitators seekng the return of the 1876 constitution; gained power through a coup in 1908 | ||
| Rulers of Egypt under the Ottomans; defeated by Napoleon in 1789; revelaedthe vulnerability of the Muslim world | ||
| Controlled Egypt by 1811; began a modernization process based on Western models but failed to greatly change Egypt; died in 1848 | ||
| Descendants of Muhammad Ali; Rulers of Egypt untio 1952 | ||
| Built to link the Mediterranean and Red seas, opened in 1869; British later occupied Egypt to safeguard their financial and strategic interests | ||
| Muslin thinkers in Egypt during the latter part of the 19th century; stressed the need for adoption of Western Scientific learning and technology and the importance of rational inquiry within Islam | ||
| Muhammad Achmed, the leader of a Sudanic Sufi brotherhood; began a holy war against the Egyptians and British and founded a state in the Sudan | ||
| Sucessor of the Mahdi; defeated and killed by British General Kitchener in 1898 | ||
| Qing ruler and Confucain scholar (1661-1722); promoted Sinification among the Manchu | ||
| 19th century Chinese official charged during the 1830's with ending the opium trade in southern China; set off the events leading to the Opium War | ||
| Fought between Britan and Qing China beginning in 1839 to protect the British trade in opium; British victory demonstrated Western superiority over China | ||
| Massive rebellion in Southern China in the 1850's and 1860's led by Hong Xiuquan; sought to overthrow the Qing dynasty and Confucianism | ||
| Conservative dowager (widow) empress who dominated the last decades of the Qing dynasty | ||
| Popular outburst aimed at expelling foreigners from China; put down by intervention of the Western powers | ||
| Last Qing ruler; deposed in 1912 | ||
| Nile River town that was the administrative center of Egyptian authority in Sudan | ||
| Eight Armies of the Manchu tribes identifited by seperate flags; created by Nuraci in early 17th century; utilized to defeat the Ming emperor and establish the Qing dynasty | ||
| Manchu dynasty that seized control of China n mid-17th century after decline of Ming; forced submission of nomadic peoples far to the west and compelled tribute from Vietnam and Burma to the south | ||
| (1812-1864) Leader of the Taiping rebellion; converted to specifically Chinese form of Christianity; attacked Confucian teachings of Chinese elite |
