ap world history ch 24-25 Flashcards

337310016	indian national congress	a movement and political party founded in 185 to demand greater indian participation in government	0
337310017	indian civil service	the elite professional class of officials who administered the government of british india	1
337310018	durbar	an elaborate display of political power and wealth in british india in the 19th century. an imitation of the mughal empire	2
337310019	sepoy rebellion	the revolt of indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs (sepoy mutiny)	3
337310020	british raj	the rule over much of south asia by east india and the british government	4
337310021	sepoy	a soldier in south asia in the service of the british	5
337310022	nawab	a muslim prince allied to british india; technically, a semi-automous deputy of the mughal emperor	6
337310023	recaptives	africans rescued by britains royal navy from the illegal slave trade of the 19th century and restored to free status	7
337310024	legitimate trade	exports from africa in the 19th century that did not include the newly out lawed slave trade	8
337310025	modernization	the process of reforming political, military, economic, social and cultural traditions in imitation of successful western societies with local traditions of non-western societies	9
337310026	sokoto caliphate	a large muslim state founded in 1809 in modern-day nigeria	10
337310027	zulu	a people of modern south africa whom king shaka united in 1818 out of conflict for grazing and farming lands	11
337310028	taiping rebellion	the most destructive civil war before the 20th century. a christian-inspired rural rebellion, which threatened to topple the qing empire	12
337310029	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	13
337310030	treaty ports	cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the qing empire and foreign signatories	14
337310031	treaty of nanking	the treaty that concluded the opium war. it awarded britain a large indemnity from the qing empire, denied qing government tariff control over some of its own borders, opened additional ports to britains and ceded hong kong to britain	15
337310032	bannermen	hereditary military servants of the qing empire. descendants of peoples of various origins who had fought for the founders of the empire	16
337310033	opium war	war between britain and qing empire that was occasioned by the qing governments refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories	17
337310034	decembrist revolt	an attempt by army officers to take control of the russian government upon the death of tsar alexander 1 in 1825	18
337310035	pan-slavism	movement among russian intellectuals in the second half of the 19th century to identify culturally and politically with the slavic peoples of eastern europe	19
337310036	slavophile	russian intellectuals in the 19th century who favored resisting western european influences and taking pride in the traditional peasant values and institutions of the slavic people	20
337310037	young ottomans	the movement of young intellectuals to institute liberal reforms and build a feeling of national identity in the ottoman empire	21
337310038	extraterritoriality	the right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native country and disregard the laws of the host country	22
337310039	crimean war	the conflict between the russian and ottoman empires fought primarily on the crimean peninsula	23
337310040	tanzimat	"restructuring" reforms by the 19th century ottoman rulers intended to move civil law away from control of religious elites and make military and bureaucracy more efficient	24
337310041	serbia	the ottoman province in the balkans that rose up against janissary control in the 1800s	25
337310042	janissaries	infantry originally of slave origin armed with fire arms and constituting the elite of the ottoman army from the 15th century until the corps was abolished in 1826	26
337310043	muhammad ali	the leader of the egyptian modernization in the 19th century. he ruled egypt as an ottoman governor, but had imperial ambitions	27
337310044	contract of indenture	a voluntary agreement binding a person to work for a specified period of years in return for free passage to an overseas destination	28
337310045	clipper ship	a large, fast, streamlined sailing vessel often american built of the mid to late 19th century rigged with cast canvas sails hung from tall masts	29