chapter 25 ap world history Flashcards

The earth and its people

137458158	Muhammad Ali	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. (p. 652)	0
137458159	Janissaries	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.	1
137458160	Serbia	The extreme northeastern sector of Asia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the present Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk.	2
137458161	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 bureacracy more efficient. (p. 678)	3
137458162	Crimean War	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.	4
137458163	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. (682)	5
137458164	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.	6
137458165	Slavophile	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.	7
137458166	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
137458167	Decembrist revolt	Abortive attempt by the army officers to take control of the Russian government upon the death of Tsar Alexander 1 in 1825.	9
137458168	Opium War	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. (p. 684)	10
137458169	Bannerman	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	11
137458170	Treaty of Nanking	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 Hong Kong to Britain.	12
137458171	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.	13
137458172	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.	14
137458173	Taiping Rebellion	The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire.	15