149194710 | Manchu | Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire | 0 | |
149194711 | daimyo | Literally, great name(s). Japanese warlords and great landowners, whose armed samurai gave them control of the Japanese islands from the 8th and to the later 19th century. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate they were subordinate to the imperial government | 1 | |
149194712 | samurai | Literally "those who serve", the hereditary military elite of the Tokugawa Shogunate | 2 | |
149194713 | Tokugawa Shogunate | 1600-1868; The last of the three shogunates of Japan | 3 | |
149194714 | Ming Empire | 1368-1644; Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. One emperor, Yongle, sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. The later years of the empire saw a slowdown in technological development and economic decline | 4 | |
149194715 | Qing Empire | Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times this empire also controlled Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, and Tibet. The last emperor was overthrown in 1911 | 5 | |
149194716 | Kangxi | 1654-1722; Qing emperor. He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire | 6 | |
149194717 | Amur River | This river valley was a contested frontier between northern China and eastern Russia until the settlement arranged in Treaty of Nerchinsk | 7 | |
149194718 | Macartney Mission | 1792-1793; The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire | 8 | |
149194719 | Muscovy | 1276-1598; Russian principality that emerged gradually during the era of Mongol domination. | 9 | |
149194720 | Ural Mountains | This north-south range separates Siberia from the rest of Russia. It is commonly considered the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia | 10 | |
149194721 | tsar | From Latin caesar, this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III | 11 | |
149194722 | Siberia | The extreme northeastern sector of Asia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the present Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk | 12 | |
149194723 | Cossacks | Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages, often as herders, mercenaries, or outlaws. They led the conquest of Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries | 13 | |
149194724 | serfs | In Russia some of these people worked as artisans and in factories; serfdom was not abolished there until 1861 | 14 | |
149194725 | Peter the Great | 1672-1725; Russian tsar. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg | 15 |
AP World Chapter 20 Vocab Flashcards
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