AP World History (Earth and Its People) Chapter 25 vocabulary flashcards
336070229 | Bannermen | Hereditary military servants of the Qing Empire, in large part descendants of peoples of various origins who had fought for the founders of the empire. | 0 | |
336070230 | Crimean War (1853-1856) | Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion, Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans. | 1 | |
336070231 | Decembrist revolt | Abortive attempt by army officers to take control of the Russian government upon the death of Tsar Alexander I in 1825. | 2 | |
336070232 | extraterritoriality | Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country, disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right. | 3 | |
336070233 | Fourteen Points | A peace program presented to the U.S. Congress by President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918. It called for the evacuation of German-occupied lands, the drawing of borders and the settling of territorial disputes by the self-determination of the affected populations, and the founding of an association of nations to preserve the peace and guarantee their territorial integrity. It was rejected by Germany, but made Wilson the moral leader of the Allies in the last year of World War I. | 4 | |
336070234 | most-favored-nation status | A clause in a commercial treaty that awards to any later signatories all the privileges previously granted to the original signatories. | 5 | |
336070235 | Muhammad Ali (1769-1849) | Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor, but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952. | 6 | |
336070236 | Opium War (1839-1842) | 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. | 7 | |
336070237 | Pan-Slavism | Movement among Russian intellectuals in the second half of the nineteenth century to identify culturally and politically with the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe. | 8 | |
336070238 | Serbia | The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. After World War II the central province of Yugoslavia. Serb leaders struggled to maintain dominance as the Yugoslav federation dissolved in the 1990s. | 9 | |
336070239 | Slavophiles | Russian 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 people. | 10 | |
336070240 | Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) | The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion that threatened to topple the Qing Empire. | 11 | |
336070241 | Tanzimat | Restructuring 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 efficient. | 12 | |
336070242 | Treaty of Nanking (1842) | The treaty that concluded the Opium War. It awarded Britain a large indemnity from the Qing Empire, denied the Qing government tariff control over some of its own borders, opened additional ports of residence to Britons, and ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain. | 13 | |
336070243 | treaty ports | Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the treaty ports, foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality. | 14 | |
336070244 | Yamagata Aritomo (1838-1922) | One of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration. | 15 | |
336070245 | Young Ottomans | Movement of young intellectuals to institute liberal reforms and build a feeling of national identity in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century. | 16 |