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| 12791685207 | The leader of the Taiping Rebellion was | Hong Xiuquan | 0 | |
| 12791685208 | In 1851, Hong Xiuquan proclaimed his own dynasty, the Taiping tianguo, which meant | "Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace" | 1 | |
| 12791685209 | The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was | Egypt | 2 | |
| 12791685210 | Muhammad Ali was | The egyptian leader who overthrew ottoman control | 3 | |
| 12791685211 | The capitulations were unfair trading agreements between the western Europeans and the | Ottoman sultans | 4 | |
| 12791685212 | Which of the following is not true about the capitulations? | they were imposed on the Europeans by the Ottomans | 5 | |
| 12791685213 | In the early 19th century, the Ottoman Sultan Selim III | Embarked on a program to remodel his army along the lines of European forces. | 6 | |
| 12791685214 | What was the name of the Sultan who, in 1826, had mutinous Janissaries slaughtered and thus opened the door for further reform with the Ottoman Empire? | Mahmud II | 7 | |
| 12791685215 | Which of the following is not a reform proposed in the Tanzimat era? | A commercial code | 8 | |
| 12791685216 | The Young Ottomans were | (Opposed the Tanzimat) A group who agitated for individual freedom, local autonomy, and political decentralization. Desired the establishment of a constitutional government along the lines of the British system. (Opposed the Tanzimat) | 9 | |
| 12791685217 | Sultan Abdul Hamid II | Was put in power by a group of radical dissidents from the Ottoman bureaucracy. Accepted a constitution, dissolved parliament, exiled many liberals, and executed others within a year. Ruled autocratically, developed army and administration according to TANZIMAT PRINCIPLES, and oversaw the formation of a police force, educational reforms, economic development, and construction of railroads. | 10 | |
| 12791685218 | Which of the following was not one of the leading principles of the YOung Turks? | Islam as the guiding principle in public life | 11 | |
| 12791685219 | Which of the following Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire? | Making Turkish the official language of the empire | 12 | |
| 12791685220 | The stipulation, "in order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogenous and uniform character, the official schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted" is rom what document? | Proclamation of the Young Turks | 13 | |
| 12791685221 | Which of the following accounts for beginning of the social reform movement in Russia in the 19th century? | Military defeat in the Crimean War | 14 | |
| 12791685222 | A defeat in the Crimean War stopped expansion by the | Russian empire. | 15 | |
| 12791685223 | The key to social reform in Russia was | Emancipation of the serfs. | 16 | |
| 12791685224 | The Russian serfs were emancipated by | Tsar Alexander II | 17 | |
| 12791685225 | The emancipation of the Russian serfs | Resulted in little, if any, increase in agricultural production. | 18 | |
| 12791685226 | As part of the Russian reforms, during the reign of Alexander II the government created zemstvos, | which were elected district assemblies that remained subordinate to the tsarist autocracy. | 19 | |
| 12791685227 | The prime mover behind Russian industrialization was | Count Sergei Witte | 20 | |
| 12791685228 | the centerpiece of Sergei Witte's Russian industrial policy was | A massive program of railway construction that linked the far-flung regions of the Russian empire and also stimulated the development of other industries. | 21 | |
| 12791685229 | The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St. Petersburg and Moscow | Became notorious for the miserable working and living conditions of factory workers. | 22 | |
| 12791685230 | Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by | The People's Will, a terrorist faction of the Land and freedom party | 23 | |
| 12791685231 | After the Assassination of Alexander II, his successor Nicholas II | championed oppression and police control. | 24 | |
| 12791685232 | The decisive factor in the Russo Japanese War was the | Destruction of Russian navy | 25 | |
| 12791685233 | The 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre eventually | Led to labor unrest, peasant insurrections, student demonstrations, and mutinies in both the army and navy. | 26 | |
| 12791685234 | Lin Zexu | Confiscated and destroyed some twenty thousand chests of opium. Ignited a war that ended in a humiliating defeat for China | 27 | |
| 12791685235 | The decisive point in the Opium War was | When British forces decided to strike at the Grand Canal, "the jugular vein" of China, with the aid of steam-powered gunboats | 28 | |
| 12791685236 | The Opium War ended with the signing of the Treaty of | Nanjing | 29 | |
| 12791685237 | Who wrote, "As months accumulate and years pass by, the poison they have produced increases in its wicked intensity, and its repugnant odor reaches as high as the sky?" | Lin Zexu | 30 | |
| 12791685238 | Which of the following was not a rebellion that threatened China in the nineteenth century? | mongol | 31 | |
| 12791685239 | Which of the following was not one of the principles of the Taiping Rebellion? | Hong Xuiquan's belief that he was the reincarnation of the Buddha | 32 | |
| 12791685240 | The Self-Strengthening Movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in | China | 33 | |
| 12791685241 | For most of the last fifty years of the Qing dynsty, China was ruled by | Empress dowager Cixi, a former imperial concubine. | 34 | |
| 12791685242 | By the end of the nineteenth century, the only thing keeping China from being completely divided up into spheres of influence by foreigners was | Distrust amont the foreign powers. | 35 | |
| 12791685243 | Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were the leaders of the | Hundred Days Reforms | 36 | |
| 12791685244 | In 1900, foreign embassies in China were besieged by | The Boxers, or the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists. | 37 | |
| 12791685245 | Japan was forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the | U.S. | 38 | |
| 12791685246 | they understood the danger of those two groups and wanted to find a way to avoid commercial and/or imperial domination by either one. | They wanted to obtain the knowledge and expertise to strengthen Japan and win revisions of the unequal treaties. | 39 | |
| 12791685247 | Which one of the following leaders played a major role in the Meiji Restoration? | The boy emperor Mutsuhito or Meiji. | 40 | |
| 12791685248 | which of the following was not one of the foundations of the meiji restoration? | turning japan into a constitutional republic | 41 | |
| 12791685249 | The event that best displayed Japan's rise to the level of a world power was their victory in the | Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese wars. | 42 |
