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4277568657Boxer UprisingRising of chinese militia organizations from 1898-1901 in which large numbers of Europeans0
4277568658Unequal treatiesSeries of 19th century treaties in which China made major concession1
4277568659Taiping uprisingMassive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of the country b/t 1850-1864 based on Hong Xiuquan2
4277568660Young TurksMovement of Turkish military and civilian elites that developed around 1900 eventually bringing down the Ottoman Empire3
4277568661Informal empireTerm commonly used to describe areas that were dominated by west powers in 19th century but retained their own governments and a measure of independence4
4277568662Lin XexuRoyal official charged with ending the opium trade in canton his efforts to destroy opium imports provoked the opium wars5
4277568663TanzimatImportant reform measures undertaken in the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1839 means reorganization6
4278259419Meiji restorationOverthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan in 1868 restoring power at the long last to emperor Meiji and establishing a new government committed to saving Japan from foreigners7
4278259420Opium warsTwo wars fought b/t western powers and China after China tried to restrict import of goods8
4278259421Tokugawa JapanPeaceful Japan as governed by a shogun from the Tokugawa family9
4279150544Russo-Japanese War1904-05 ending in a Japanese victory this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in east Asia10
4279163079Self-Strengthening movementChina's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West11
4279176865Chinese Revolution of 1911collapse of China's imperial order officailly at the hands of organized revolutionaries but for most part under the weight of the troubles that had overwhelmed the government for the previous 50 years12
4279193349Edward Blydenprominent West African scholar and political leader who argued that each civilization including that of africa has its own unique contribution to make the world13
4279210222Cash-crop agricultureagriculture production of crops for sale in the market rather than just for consumption by the farmers14
4279225110Indian Rebellionmassive uprising from 1857-58 of much of India against British rule15
4279232490Scramble for Africaname used for the process of the European countries partition of the continent of Africa b/t themselves from 1875-190016
4279242259Colonial tribalisma European tendency epecially in African Tendencies to identify and sometimes invent distinct tribes that had often not existed before17
4279253489European racismnew kind of racism that emerged in the 19th century that increasingly used the prestige and apparatus of science to support European racial prejudices18
4279263215Africaninzation of Christianityoccurred in non Muslim Africa millions who were converted to Christ sought to maintian older traditions19
4279276964Western educated elitemain beneficiaries in asian and african lands colonized by western powers schooled in imperial methods led anticolonial movements20
4279294985Congo free stateLeopold II was king of belgium from 1865-1909 his rule is held up as the worst abuse of europe's 2nd wave of colonization21
4279307823Cultivation systemsystem of forced labor used in the netherlands east indies in the 19th century peasant were forced to cultivate their own land22
4279325734Increasing discontent with rule propelled reformist and revolutionary movementscolonial23
4279332777Intellectuals critiqued the role that played in public life insisiting on the importance ofreligion/reason24

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