China Chp. 20 & 25 Flashcards
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| 248793802 | Manchu | Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire. | 0 | |
| 248793803 | Ming Empire | (1368-1644) Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. The Ming emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. The later years of the Ming saw a slowdown in technological development and economic decline. | 1 | |
| 248793804 | Qing Empire | Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times the Qing also controlled Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, and Tibet. The last Qing emperor was overthrown in 1911. | 2 | |
| 248793805 | Kangxi | (1654-1722) Qing emperor (r. 1662-1722). He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire. | 3 | |
| 248793806 | 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 onesided Treaty of Nanking on China. | 4 | |
| 248793807 | 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. | 5 | |
| 248793808 | 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. | 6 | |
| 248793809 | 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. | 7 | |
| 248793810 | 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. | 8 | |
| 248793811 | Taiping Rebellion | (1853-1864) The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. | 9 |