337310016 | indian national congress | a movement and political party founded in 185 to demand greater indian participation in government | 0 | |
337310017 | indian civil service | the elite professional class of officials who administered the government of british india | 1 | |
337310018 | durbar | an elaborate display of political power and wealth in british india in the 19th century. an imitation of the mughal empire | 2 | |
337310019 | sepoy rebellion | the revolt of indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs (sepoy mutiny) | 3 | |
337310020 | british raj | the rule over much of south asia by east india and the british government | 4 | |
337310021 | sepoy | a soldier in south asia in the service of the british | 5 | |
337310022 | nawab | a muslim prince allied to british india; technically, a semi-automous deputy of the mughal emperor | 6 | |
337310023 | recaptives | africans rescued by britains royal navy from the illegal slave trade of the 19th century and restored to free status | 7 | |
337310024 | legitimate trade | exports from africa in the 19th century that did not include the newly out lawed slave trade | 8 | |
337310025 | modernization | the process of reforming political, military, economic, social and cultural traditions in imitation of successful western societies with local traditions of non-western societies | 9 | |
337310026 | sokoto caliphate | a large muslim state founded in 1809 in modern-day nigeria | 10 | |
337310027 | zulu | a people of modern south africa whom king shaka united in 1818 out of conflict for grazing and farming lands | 11 | |
337310028 | taiping rebellion | the most destructive civil war before the 20th century. a christian-inspired rural rebellion, which threatened to topple the qing empire | 12 | |
337310029 | 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 | 13 | |
337310030 | treaty ports | cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the qing empire and foreign signatories | 14 | |
337310031 | treaty of nanking | the treaty that concluded the opium war. it awarded britain a large indemnity from the qing empire, denied qing government tariff control over some of its own borders, opened additional ports to britains and ceded hong kong to britain | 15 | |
337310032 | bannermen | hereditary military servants of the qing empire. descendants of peoples of various origins who had fought for the founders of the empire | 16 | |
337310033 | opium war | war between britain and qing empire that was occasioned by the qing governments refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories | 17 | |
337310034 | decembrist revolt | an attempt by army officers to take control of the russian government upon the death of tsar alexander 1 in 1825 | 18 | |
337310035 | pan-slavism | movement among russian intellectuals in the second half of the 19th century to identify culturally and politically with the slavic peoples of eastern europe | 19 | |
337310036 | slavophile | russian intellectuals in the 19th century who favored resisting western european influences and taking pride in the traditional peasant values and institutions of the slavic people | 20 | |
337310037 | young ottomans | the movement of young intellectuals to institute liberal reforms and build a feeling of national identity in the ottoman empire | 21 | |
337310038 | 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 | 22 | |
337310039 | crimean war | the conflict between the russian and ottoman empires fought primarily on the crimean peninsula | 23 | |
337310040 | tanzimat | "restructuring" reforms by the 19th century ottoman rulers intended to move civil law away from control of religious elites and make military and bureaucracy more efficient | 24 | |
337310041 | serbia | the ottoman province in the balkans that rose up against janissary control in the 1800s | 25 | |
337310042 | janissaries | infantry originally of slave origin armed with fire arms and constituting the elite of the ottoman army from the 15th century until the corps was abolished in 1826 | 26 | |
337310043 | muhammad ali | the leader of the egyptian modernization in the 19th century. he ruled egypt as an ottoman governor, but had imperial ambitions | 27 | |
337310044 | 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 | 28 | |
337310045 | clipper ship | a large, fast, streamlined sailing vessel often american built of the mid to late 19th century rigged with cast canvas sails hung from tall masts | 29 |
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