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| 9618206400 | Imperial Diet (Political; Pg. ) | National assembly of seven electors, non-electoral princes, and representatives from 65 imperial free cities |  | 0 |
| 9618206437 | Zaibatsu (pg. 904) | 1 | ||
| 9618206401 | Janissaries (Political; Pg. 883) | Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826. |  | 2 |
| 9618206402 | Muhammad Ali (Political; Pg. 920) | 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. |  | 3 |
| 9618206403 | Capitulations (Political; Pg. 882) | agreements with European powers that gave European bankers and merchants unfair advantages in the Ottoan Empire | 4 | |
| 9618206404 | Extraterritoriality (Political; Pg. ) | Right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation. |  | 5 |
| 9618206405 | Mahmud II (Political; Pg. 883) | Ottoman sultan; built a private, professional army; fomented revolution of Janissaries and crushed them with private army; destroyed power of Janissaries and their religious allies; initiated reform of Ottoman Empire on Western precedents |  | 6 |
| 9618206406 | Tanzimat Reforms (Political; Pg. 883) | A set of reforms in the Ottoman Empire set to revise Ottoman law to help lift the capitulations put on the Ottomans by European powers. |  | 7 |
| 9618206407 | Young Ottomans (Cultural, Political; Pg. 884) | 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. |  | 8 |
| 9618206408 | Abdul Hamid II (Political; Pg. 885) | Sultan that tried to add a representative government; ruled for thirty more years even after that government idea failed |  | 9 |
| 9618206409 | Young Turks | A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It was against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and instead favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. |  | 10 |
| 9618206410 | Constitution of 1876 | Stripped the governor and legislature of many powers |  | 11 |
| 9618206411 | Crimean War | (1853-1856) Russian war against Ottomans for control of the Black Sea; intervention by Britain and France cause Russia to lose; Russians realize need to industiralize. |  | 12 |
| 9618206412 | Tsar Alexander II | He was a Russian Tsar who attempted reform ("Emancipator") but his appeasement (emancipation of serfs and the establishment of Zemstvos) led to his assassination by the People's Will |  | 13 |
| 9618206413 | Emancipation | (AL) , Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free |  | 14 |
| 9618206414 | Zemstvos | Elected local rural governments that allowed some democracy without weakening the central government. |  | 15 |
| 9618206415 | Sergei Witte | A tough finance minister who thought that Russia's industrial backwardness was threatening Russia's power and greatness |  | 16 |
| 9618206416 | Trans-Siberian Railway | built with help of French and British from 1891-1916 it would be the world's longest continuous railway. It connected European Russia with Russian ports on the Pacific Ocean in the east. |  | 17 |
| 9618206417 | Intelligentsia | intellectuals; members of the educated elit |  | 18 |
| 9618206418 | Pogroms | Government supported attacks against Jews in Russia |  | 19 |
| 9618206419 | Nicholas II | Last tsar of Russia, he went to the frontlines in WWI to try to rally the troops, but was forced to abdicate after his wife made horrible decisions under the influence of Rasputin. |  | 20 |
| 9618206420 | Russo-Japansese war | Japanese attack Russian holdings in Manchuria after years of Russian instigation in Korea (Battle of Port Arthur); Japan complete destroys the Russia Baltic fleet in the Battle of Tsushima Strait; Japan= Great Eastern Empire (major power shift); annexes Korea in 191 | 21 | |
| 9618206421 | Bloody Sunday | 1905, peaceful protest to czar Nicholas II palace, led by Father Gapon, fired on by palace guards, 100s died |  | 22 |
| 9618206422 | Duma | The elected parliament. Though through establishing this is seemed like the Czar was giving his people power, in reality he could easily get rid of this if they made any laws or such that he didn't like. |  | 23 |
| 9618206423 | Cohong System | (early 1800s-mid 1800s) foreign merchants deal with specially licensed Chinese firms (cohongs). Merchants paid for Chinese silk, porcelain, lacquerware, tea with silver bullion. Cohongs had all control over foreign trade |  | 24 |
| 9618206424 | Opium war | 1839-1842. Chinese attempted to prohibit the opium trade, British declared war and won against Chinese. Treaty of Nanjing, agreed to open 5 ports to British trade and limit tariffs on British goods and gave Hong Kong. |  | 25 |
| 9618206425 | Treaty of Nanjing | 1842, ended Opium war, said the western nations would determine who would trade with china, so it set up the unequal treaty system which allowed western nations to own a part of chinese territory and conduct trading business in china under their own laws; this treaty set up 5 treaty ports where westerners could live, work, and be treated under their own laws; one of these were Hong Kong. |  | 26 |
| 9618206426 | Unequal Treaties | trade treaties that China signed under pressure of invasion; gave Western powers trade benefits |  | 27 |
| 9618206427 | Hong Kong | A British colony in China, received after the first Opium War and returned to China in 1997 |  | 28 |
| 9618206428 | Tributary Empire | Ch. was one - Had neighboring lands pay tribute to it for it was stronger & bigger than them (Middle Kingdom) |  | 29 |
| 9618206429 | Taiping Rebellion | (1850-1864) A revolt by the people of China against the ruling Manchu Dynasty because of their failure to deal effectively with the opium problem and the interference of foreigners. |  | 30 |
| 9618206430 | Self-Strengthening movement | late 19th century movement in China to counter the challenge from the West; led by provincial leaders |  | 31 |
| 9618206431 | Empress Cixi | the dowager empress who encouraged and promoted the Boxer rebellion |  | 32 |
| 9618206432 | Boxer rebellion | 1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops. |  | 33 |
| 9618206433 | Admiral Perry | American naval officer who forced Japan into opening its doors to trade, thus bringing western influence to Japan while showing American might |  | 34 |
| 9618206434 | Tokugawa | this man established a shogunate that would dominate Japan for hundreds of years |  | 35 |
| 9618206435 | Bakufu | military-style government of the Japanese shogun |  | 36 |
| 9618206436 | Meiji Reforms | returned authority to the Japanese emperor, birth of modern Japan, attempted to industrialize Japan, westernize it, sent people abroad to study, constitutional monarchy was formed |  | 37 |
