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6132301533Muhammad Alileader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century0
6132305213Janissariesinfantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constitutioning the elite of the ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 19261
6132305214Serbiathe ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s2
6132307705Tanzimatrestructuring reforms by the nineteenth century Ottoman rulers intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureaucracy more efficient3
6132307706Crimean warconflict between the Russian and ottoman empires primarily in the Crimean peninsula4
6132326115Extraterritorialitythe right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native country and disregard the laws of the host country.5
6132328193SlavophilesRussian intellectuals in the early nineteenth century who favored resisting western European influences and taking pride in the traditional peasant values and institutions of the Slavic people6
6132330434Pan-Slavismmovement among Russian intellectuals in the second half of the nineteenth century of the nineteenth century to identify culturally and politically the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe.7
6132332561Decembrist RevoltAbortive attempt by army officers to take control of the Russian government upon the death of Tsar Alexander I in 18258
6132335202Opium WarWar between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing govenment's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories.9
6132335203bannermenHereditary military servants of Qing Empire, in large part descendants of people of various origins who had fought for the founders of the empire10
6132338459Treaty of Nakingthe treaty that concluded the opium war11
6132340512treaty portscities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories12
6132344463most-favored-nation-statusA clause in a commercial treaty that awards to any later signatories all the privileges previously granted to the original signatories13
6132382741Taiping Rebelliona Christian-inspired rural rebellion that threatened to topple the Qing Empire14

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