APW Unit 8 Voc Flashcards

141041681	Hong Xuiquan	schoolteacher- provided inspiration for TAIPING REBELLION. Claimed to be younger brother of Jesus. Nearly ended Qing dyn.	0
141041682	Extraterritoriality	privilege of foreign diplomats, not subject to laws of host nation	1
141041683	Joseph Arthur de Gobineau	French conservative. Prejudiced against jews. "Aryans are superior"	2
141041684	Ram Mohun Roy	Indian Reformer-- supported monothiesm and freedom of speech.	3
141041685	Bloody Sunday	Unarmed workers protested Tsar Nicholas II, troops killed over 100	4
141041686	Opium War	Britain and China fighting over illegal opium trade.	5
141041687	Taiping Rebellion	revolution in Qing China led by Hung Xiuquan. Social reforms-- prohibited slave trade, prostitution, and foot binding	6
141041688	King Leopold II of Belgium	Belgian King. Organized the International Association for the Exploration and Civilization of the Congo. Ravaged the congo	7
141041689	Maori	Natives of New Zealand. Britains took over their land after the Treaty of Waitangi	8
141041690	Sepoys	Natives of India, served in army of the british	9
141041691	Maxim	A family of inventors and munitions makers. _____ Machine gun, smokeless gunpowder, an airplane, explosives and a silencer for explosives	10
141041692	Russo-Japanese War	began with Japanese surprise attack on Russia, ended with destruction of Russian army	11
141041693	Duma	an elected legislative assembly in russia created by Tsar Nicholas II as a concession to help end the Revolt of 1905.	12
141041694	Treaty of Nanjing	Treaty concluding Opium War	13
141041695	Alexander II	he ended the Crimean war. Abolished serfdom and introduced zemstvos, was assasinated	14
141041696	Pogroms	violent attacks on Jewish communities encouraged by gvt officials in Russia	15
141041697	Emilio Aguinaldo	filipino rebel leader. Worked with USA to kick spanish out of Philippines. Americans took over Philippines	16
141041698	Indentured labor migration	Surge of laborers to Americas, Caribbean, Africa and Oceania after the abolition of slavery	17
141041699	Matthew C. Perry	American Commander of the US naval squadron that came to Edo Bay in 1853 and threatened the bakufu capital of Edo.	18
141041700	Muhammad Ali	Selected to sere as governor of Egypt for the Ottoman Empire.	19
141041701	Selim III	Sultan of Ottoman Empire who tried to remodel his army along the lines of European forces	20
141041702	The Boxer Rebellion	Revolt against Euro control in china. Society of Righteous and Harmonious fists	21
141041703	Meiji Reforms	Japanese reform program, named after emperor who started it. Japanese wanted to be more like Europeans	22
141041704	Maji Maji Rebellion	Rebellion by natives in Tanganyika. Wanted to expel German Colonial authoroties. They got owned.	23
141041705	Herbert Spencer	English philosopher, kind of a jerk. Twisted Darwin's theory of evolution to explain why some races were more successful than others	24
141041706	Indian National Congress	Indian Reform group founded with British Approval. Indians from all over country came to discuss their views onpublic affairs and communicate them to the colonial officials	25
141041707	sati	when widows jumped on their husbands funeral fire	26
141041708	Thomas Stamford Raffles	he founded the port of singapore	27
141041709	Viceroy	term used for British royal governor of India	28
141041710	Great Game	when russian and British explorers ventured into parts of central Asia never before visited by Europeans	29
141041711	Rudyard Kipling	British writer who wrote "The Man Who Would Become King" "The Jungle Book," and "Kim"great defender of imperialism	30
141041712	Omdurman	city in northeast-central sudan on the white nile opposite ot Khartoum. Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated Sudanese native forces here in 1898.	31