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| 9221925007 | Abd al-Hamid II | Ottoman sultan who accepted a reform constitution but then suppressed and ruled as an autocrat | 0 | |
| 9221925008 | Boxer Rebellion | A 1900 rebellion of traditionalist Chinese people who wanted to throw the foreigners out | 1 | |
| 9221925009 | China, 1911 | The year of the collapse of China's imperial order | 2 | |
| 9221925010 | daimyo | A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai | 3 | |
| 9221925011 | Hong Xiuquan | Leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Thought himself the younger brother of Jesus | 4 | |
| 9221925012 | informal empire | the growing presence of Europeans in Africa during the first decades of the nineteenth century | 5 | |
| 9221925013 | Meiji restoration | The restoration of the Emperor Meiji to power in Japan, overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 | 6 | |
| 9221925014 | Matthew Perry | This American naval officer was the driving factor in Japan's opening by using gunboat diplomacy | 7 | |
| 9221925015 | Opium Wars | conflict between Britain and China in 1839 over the Opium trade, Britain wins and China weakens | 8 | |
| 9221925016 | Russo-Japanese War | (1904-1905) War between Russia and Japan over imperial possessions. Japan emerges victorious and takes parts of Manchuria under its control | 9 | |
| 9222011491 | samurai | Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land | 10 | |
| 9222011492 | self-strengthening movement | Chinese attempt (1860-1895) to blend Chinese cultural traditions with European industrial technology | 11 | |
| 9222011493 | Selim III | Ottoman sultan who tried to reorganize army by European standards, but assassinated in a janissary revolt in 1807 | 12 | |
| 9222011494 | the sick man of Europe | label given to a European country experiencing a time of economic difficulty or impoverishment. The term was first used in the mid-19th century to describe the Ottoman Empire, but has since been applied at one time or another to nearly every other major country in Europe | 13 | |
| 9222011495 | social Darwinism | the belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle | 14 | |
| 9222011496 | Taiping Uprising | Massive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of the country from 1850-1864. It was, in essence, the establishment of a new country, the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, in the southern part of China | 15 | |
| 9222011497 | Tanzimat reforms | A set of reforms designed to remake the Ottoman Empire on a Western European model from 1840-1870 | 16 | |
| 9222011498 | Tokugawa shogunate | Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences | 17 | |
| 9222011499 | unequal treaties | Series of nineteenth-century treaties in which China made major concessions to Western powers | 18 | |
| 9222011500 | Young Ottomans | Educated urban men who tried to create a constitution, liberal reform, and a Turkic national state | 19 | |
| 9222011501 | Young Turks | a successful Turkish reformist group in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries | 20 |
