CH 22 Eastern Eurasia Flashcards

144017366	Jesuits	Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism. They often preceded traders, explorers, and conquerors in regions newly known to Europe.	0
144017367	Siberia	land in Eastern Eurasia brought to attention by Russian rulers.	1
144017368	Muscovy	New state in territory surrounding Moscow, by 1500 it was the dominant political force in the lands that had been controlled by the Kievan state.	2
144017369	Tsar	from "Cesar". Title taken by Ivan IV the Terrible.	3
144017370	Mikhail Romanov	Russian tsar (r. 1613-1645) A member of the Russian aristocracy, he became tsar after the old line of Muscovite rulers was deposed. (p. 551)	4
144017371	Cossaks	Peoples of the Russian Empire (Ukraina) who lived outside the farming villages, on the steepes, often as herders, mercenaries, or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Name comes from turkic word for warrior. Combination of Turkic and Russian skill and culture.	5
144017372	Peter the Great	czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government from 1689 to 1725. Wanted to secure black sea port, navy blockade on Ottoman ports.	6
144017373	autocracy	a form of government in which a single person holds unlimited political power	7
144017374	serfs	the great mass of the Russian people- foced by law and custom to work on the land of their overlords	8
144017375	Ming Empire	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.	9
144017376	dalai lama	'universal teacher' of Tibetan Buddhism	10
144017377	Manchus	an agriculturally based people who controlled the region north of Korea, contributed troops to an international force under ming leadership.	11
144017378	Qing Empire	Ruled by a Manchu imperial family, and manchus were the leaders of the military forces	12
144017379	Kangxi	Intellectual prodigy who mastered chinese, manchu, and mongolian at an early age and memorized chinese classics. Succesful military commander who led troops in campaings that brought mongolia under Qing control.	13
144017380	variolation	blowing small pox powder in the nose to prevent severe outbreak and immunize against future outbreaks	14
144017381	Macartney Mission	The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire. (p. 560)	15
144017382	Tokugawa Shogunate	was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo, which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868, when it was abolished during the Meiji Restoration.	16
144017383	samurai	warriors under Tokugawa Shogunate	17
144017384	Boyars	Russian Aristocracy	18