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| 326779781 | Crimean War | Conflict btw Russian & Ottoman Empires fought Primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. to prevent Russian expansion, Britian and france sent troops to support the Ottomans. It was a change from trad. To modern warfare. The use of breach loading rifles, percussion caps, early machine guns, trench warfare, use of railroads to transfer men and goods. | 0 | |
| 326779782 | Decembrist revolt abortive attempt by army officers to taske control of the russian government upon the death of Tsar Alexander I in 1825 | abortive attempt by army officers to taske control of the russian government upon the death of Tsar Alexander I in 1825 | 1 | |
| 326779783 | Extraterritoriality | The right of the foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native counrty and disregard the laws of the host country. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, European and American nationals living in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right. | 2 | |
| 326779784 | Most-favored nation status | A clause in a commercial treaty that awrads to any later signatories all the privileges previously granted to the original signatories. | 3 | |
| 326779785 | Muhammad Ali | Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early 19th century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor, but had imperial ambitions. His descendents ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952. | 4 | |
| 326779786 | Opium War | War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories. The victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China. | 5 | |
| 326779787 | Pan-Savism | Movement among Russian intellectuals in the second half of the 19th century to identify culturally and polilically with the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe. | 6 | |
| 326779788 | Serbia | The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. After WW2 the central province of Yugoslavia. Serb leaders struggled to maintain dominance as the Yudoslav federation dissolved in the 1900s. | 7 | |
| 326779789 | Taiping Rebellion | The most destructive civil war before the 20th century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion that threatened to topple the Qing Empire. | 8 | |
| 326779790 | Treaty of nanking | The treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded a large indemnity from the Qing Empire, denied the Qing gov. tariff control over some of its own borders, opened additional ports of residence to Britons, and ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain. | 9 | |
| 326779791 | Young Ottomans | Movement of intellectuals to institute liberal reforms and build a felling of national identity in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the 19th century. | 10 | |
| 326779792 | Tsar Emancipator | Alexander 2 of Russia was called this because he freed serfs and brought about reforms in Russia, but was assassinated. | 11 | |
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| 326779794 | British raj | The rule of much of South Asia between 1765 and 1947 by the E.I.C and then by the Birtish gov. | 13 | |
| 326779795 | Clipper ships | Large, fast, streamlined sailing vessel, often American built, of the mid-to-late 19th century rigged with cast canvas sails hung from tall masts. | 14 | |
| 326779796 | 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. Before 1800, most indentured servants were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians. | 15 | |
| 326779797 | durbar | An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the 19th century, ostensibly in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire. | 16 | |
| 326779798 | Indian civil service | The elite professional class of officials who administered the gov. of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men, it gradually added qualified Indians. | 17 | |
| 326779799 | Indian national congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in gov. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until WW1. Led after 1920 by Gandhi, it appealed increasingly to the poor, and it organized mass protests demanding self-gov. and independence. | 18 | |
| 326779800 | Modernization | The process of reforming political, military, economic, social, and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies, often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies. | 19 | |
| 326779801 | Recaptives | Africans rescued by Britian's Royal NAvy from the illegal slave trade of the 19th century and restored to free status | 20 | |
| 326779802 | Sepoy | solidier in South Asia, especially in the service of the British | 21 | |
| 326779803 | Sepoy Rebellion | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; aka the Sepoy Mutiny. | 22 | |
| 326779804 | Sokoto Caliphate | A large state founded in what is now northern Nigeria. | 23 | |
| 326779805 | Zulu | people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united in 1818 | 24 |
