141041681 | Hong Xuiquan | schoolteacher- provided inspiration for TAIPING REBELLION. Claimed to be younger brother of Jesus. Nearly ended Qing dyn. | 0 | |
141041682 | Extraterritoriality | privilege of foreign diplomats, not subject to laws of host nation | 1 | |
141041683 | Joseph Arthur de Gobineau | French conservative. Prejudiced against jews. "Aryans are superior" | 2 | |
141041684 | Ram Mohun Roy | Indian Reformer-- supported monothiesm and freedom of speech. | 3 | |
141041685 | Bloody Sunday | Unarmed workers protested Tsar Nicholas II, troops killed over 100 | 4 | |
141041686 | Opium War | Britain and China fighting over illegal opium trade. | 5 | |
141041687 | Taiping Rebellion | revolution in Qing China led by Hung Xiuquan. Social reforms-- prohibited slave trade, prostitution, and foot binding | 6 | |
141041688 | King Leopold II of Belgium | Belgian King. Organized the International Association for the Exploration and Civilization of the Congo. Ravaged the congo | 7 | |
141041689 | Maori | Natives of New Zealand. Britains took over their land after the Treaty of Waitangi | 8 | |
141041690 | Sepoys | Natives of India, served in army of the british | 9 | |
141041691 | Maxim | A family of inventors and munitions makers. _____ Machine gun, smokeless gunpowder, an airplane, explosives and a silencer for explosives | 10 | |
141041692 | Russo-Japanese War | began with Japanese surprise attack on Russia, ended with destruction of Russian army | 11 | |
141041693 | Duma | an elected legislative assembly in russia created by Tsar Nicholas II as a concession to help end the Revolt of 1905. | 12 | |
141041694 | Treaty of Nanjing | Treaty concluding Opium War | 13 | |
141041695 | Alexander II | he ended the Crimean war. Abolished serfdom and introduced zemstvos, was assasinated | 14 | |
141041696 | Pogroms | violent attacks on Jewish communities encouraged by gvt officials in Russia | 15 | |
141041697 | Emilio Aguinaldo | filipino rebel leader. Worked with USA to kick spanish out of Philippines. Americans took over Philippines | 16 | |
141041698 | Indentured labor migration | Surge of laborers to Americas, Caribbean, Africa and Oceania after the abolition of slavery | 17 | |
141041699 | Matthew C. Perry | American Commander of the US naval squadron that came to Edo Bay in 1853 and threatened the bakufu capital of Edo. | 18 | |
141041700 | Muhammad Ali | Selected to sere as governor of Egypt for the Ottoman Empire. | 19 | |
141041701 | Selim III | Sultan of Ottoman Empire who tried to remodel his army along the lines of European forces | 20 | |
141041702 | The Boxer Rebellion | Revolt against Euro control in china. Society of Righteous and Harmonious fists | 21 | |
141041703 | Meiji Reforms | Japanese reform program, named after emperor who started it. Japanese wanted to be more like Europeans | 22 | |
141041704 | Maji Maji Rebellion | Rebellion by natives in Tanganyika. Wanted to expel German Colonial authoroties. They got owned. | 23 | |
141041705 | Herbert Spencer | English philosopher, kind of a jerk. Twisted Darwin's theory of evolution to explain why some races were more successful than others | 24 | |
141041706 | Indian National Congress | Indian Reform group founded with British Approval. Indians from all over country came to discuss their views onpublic affairs and communicate them to the colonial officials | 25 | |
141041707 | sati | when widows jumped on their husbands funeral fire | 26 | |
141041708 | Thomas Stamford Raffles | he founded the port of singapore | 27 | |
141041709 | Viceroy | term used for British royal governor of India | 28 | |
141041710 | Great Game | when russian and British explorers ventured into parts of central Asia never before visited by Europeans | 29 | |
141041711 | Rudyard Kipling | British writer who wrote "The Man Who Would Become King" "The Jungle Book," and "Kim"great defender of imperialism | 30 | |
141041712 | Omdurman | city in northeast-central sudan on the white nile opposite ot Khartoum. Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated Sudanese native forces here in 1898. | 31 |
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