AP World Chapter 20 Vocab Flashcards

149194710	Manchu	Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire	0
149194711	daimyo	Literally, great name(s). Japanese warlords and great landowners, whose armed samurai gave them control of the Japanese islands from the 8th and to the later 19th century. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate they were subordinate to the imperial government	1
149194712	samurai	Literally "those who serve", the hereditary military elite of the Tokugawa Shogunate	2
149194713	Tokugawa Shogunate	1600-1868; The last of the three shogunates of Japan	3
149194714	Ming Empire	1368-1644; Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. One emperor, Yongle, sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. The later years of the empire saw a slowdown in technological development and economic decline	4
149194715	Qing Empire	Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times this empire also controlled Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, and Tibet. The last emperor was overthrown in 1911	5
149194716	Kangxi	1654-1722; Qing emperor. He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire	6
149194717	Amur River	This river valley was a contested frontier between northern China and eastern Russia until the settlement arranged in Treaty of Nerchinsk	7
149194718	Macartney Mission	1792-1793; The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire	8
149194719	Muscovy	1276-1598; Russian principality that emerged gradually during the era of Mongol domination.	9
149194720	Ural Mountains	This north-south range separates Siberia from the rest of Russia. It is commonly considered the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia	10
149194721	tsar	From Latin caesar, this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III	11
149194722	Siberia	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	12
149194723	Cossacks	Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages, often as herders, mercenaries, or outlaws. They led the conquest of Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries	13
149194724	serfs	In Russia some of these people worked as artisans and in factories; serfdom was not abolished there until 1861	14
149194725	Peter the Great	1672-1725; Russian tsar. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg	15