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| 12313081583 | Janissaries | Ottoman slave soldiers | 0 | |
| 12313090270 | Ayan | -wealthy landowners -overtaxed peasents -cheated sultan | 1 | |
| 12313094497 | Balkans | peninsula where a lot of the Ottoman empire was located | 2 | |
| 12313099583 | Selim III | -aimed at improving administrative efficiency -building a new army and navy -toppled by Janissaries | 3 | |
| 12313113195 | Mahmud II | -built secret army -killed all the Janissaries -brought ambassaders, clothing, and ideas from the west into the Ottoman empire | 4 | |
| 12313128455 | Ulama | Muslim religious scholars | 5 | |
| 12313134400 | Tanzimat Reforms | -reforms in the Ottoman empire -european education of science and math -communication improved with railways, postal service, and telegraphs -constituion(1876) which improved religous minorites -increased trade with europe | 6 | |
| 12313162838 | Hamid | -wanted to return to absolutism -nullified constitution and restricted civil liberties | 7 | |
| 12313168311 | Young Turks | -reformers that wanted to bring back the constitution -stopped by WWI | 8 | |
| 12313177361 | Suez canal | -canal in egypt controlled and funded by British and France -increased trade by reducing travel time -in 1956, egypt took back control of the canal | 9 | |
| 12313195928 | Mehemed Pasha | -treasury official in Ottoman empire -focussed on issues of ottoman decline like corruption and overpayment | 10 | |
| 12313214393 | Qing Dynasty | EARLY: confucian ideas, fileal piety, women were still infirier DECLINE: outside invaders, rivers flood, food shortage, outside invaders, government corruption, failure of the civil service exams | 11 | |
| 12313360184 | Manchu | -founded Qing dynasty -adopted chinese ways and confucianism | 12 | |
| 12313367802 | Nurachi | -unified nothern tribes -conquered Manchuria with the Manchus | 13 | |
| 12313379822 | Kangxi | -Qing emperor -promoted Confucian ideas -wanted to improve the civil service exam | 14 | |
| 12313406552 | Compradors | wealthy group of merchants under the Qing, trade silk, tea, and porcelin in exchange for silver | 15 | |
| 12313415554 | Opium war | -British beat China in a fight to rid China of Opium because British were bringing opium into China -Treaty of Nanking | 16 | |
| 12313437647 | Comissioner Lin | -tasked in ridding China of Opium through trade -destroyed European opium | 17 | |
| 12313451106 | Extraterritoriality | -Europeans follow their own rules in China -result of the Opium war | 18 | |
| 12313456369 | Treaty of Nanking | Treaty that concluded the Opium War and ceded Hong Kong to Britain. | 19 | |
| 12313463861 | Taiping Rebellion | -people revolted against Qing dynasty -sought liberation of women, education, and healthcare | 20 | |
| 12313476333 | Self-Strengthening Movement | -China's attempt to reform -built railroads -modernized army crushed Taiping Rebellion | 21 | |
| 12313484375 | Boxer Rebellion | -revolt of students against foreigners -Europeans help Qing put it down | 22 | |
| 12313492285 | Emperess Cixi | -promoted Boxer Rebellion -ultraconservative | 23 | |
| 12313502308 | Sun Yat-sen | -forms republic after the last emperor is kicked out of power | 24 |
