Chpt. 26 Key Terms Flashcards

21136775	Tanzimat reforms	Western style reforms within the ottoman empire, European- influenced constitution	0
21136776	Young Turks	Members of the Ottoman Society for Union and Progress, gained power through a coup	1
21136777	Mamluks	Rulers of Egypt under the Ottomans, Slave warriors	2
21136778	Muhammad Ali	controlled Egypt, modernization process based on Western models	3
21136779	Khedives	Descendants of Muhammad Ali	4
21136780	Suez Canal	Built to link the Mediterranean and Red seas, British occupied	5
21136781	Mahdi	the leader of a Sudanic Sufi brotherhood, holy war against the Egyptians an British	6
21138712	Kangxi	Qing ruler and Confucian scholar; promoted Sinification	7
21138713	Lin Zexu	Chinese official charged with ending the opium trade in southern China	8
21138714	Opium war	2 seperate wars fought between Britian and Qing China to protect British trade in opium	9
21138715	Taiping Rebellion	Massive rebellion in Southern China led by Hong Xiuquan, Overthrow the Qing dynasty/ Confuscianism	10
21138716	Cixi	Conservative dowager empress during the Qing dynasty	11
21138717	Boxer Rebellion	Popular outburst aimed at expelling foreigners from China	12
21138718	Puyi	last Qing ruler	13
21138719	Khartoum	Nile River town that was administrative center of Egyptian authority	14
21138720	Banner Armies	Eight armies of Manchu tribes, utilizied to defeat Ming emperor	15
21138721	Qing dynasty	Manchu dynasty that siezed control of China after decline of Ming	16
21138722	Hong Xiuquan	Leader of the Taiping rebellion, believed in a form of christianity, attacked chinese elite	17