AP World History Strayer Chapter 19 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 12760304809 | Taiping Uprising | *Definition:* Massive Rebellion in China during the Qing dynasty. *Significance:* War resulted in over 20 million deaths and showed rising discontent in the way China handled matters and change. | 0 | |
| 12760304810 | Opium Wars | *Definition:* Wars between Britain and China, when Britain wouldn't stop opium exports. *Significance:* Resulted in 4 new ports opening in China and Opium legalized with British control. | 1 | |
| 12760304811 | Unequal treaties | *Definition:* Treaties between China and Western powers after Opium war. *Significance:* Favored Western Powers and weakened China. | 2 | |
| 12760304812 | Self-Strengthening Movement | *Definition:* A time of institutional reforms in China during the late Qing dynasty. *Significance:* China adopted Western military technology and maintained traditional Confucian values. | 3 | |
| 12760304813 | Boxer Uprising | *Definition:* Militant uprising in China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence. *Significance:* Showed increasing resentment of Western countries and influence in China. | 4 | |
| 12760304815 | Chinese Revolution of 1911 | *Definition:* Collapse of China's imperial order. *Significance:* It was officially at the hands of organized revolutionaries but really under the weight of troubles that had overwhelmed the government for the previous century. | 5 | |
| 12760304816 | "Sick man of Europe" | *Definition:* Term used to describe European country in time of difficulty (1st one- Ottomans). *Significance:* Showed diminishing power of a once powerful Ottoman Empire. | 6 | |
| 12760304817 | Tanzimat | *Definition:* Period of Reformation in Ottoman Empire. *Significance:* Showed the Ottoman Empire's need to adopt from and copy other nations in order to stay alive and keep up with Western countries. | 7 | |
| 12760304818 | Young Turks | *Definition:* Members of a revolutionary party in Ottoman Empire. *Significance:* Carried out a revolution in 1908 and advocated for reforms and change. | 8 | |
| 12760304819 | Sultan Abd al-Hamid II | *Definition:* Ottoman sultan who accepted a reform constitution but quickly suppressed it. *Significance:* Reactionary ruler (autocrat). He was the last to exert effective autocratic control over the Ottoman Empire. | 9 | |
| 12760304820 | Young Ottomans | *Definition:* Movement of young scholars to institute liberal reforms and build the feeling of national identity. *Significance:* Helped build nationalism inside the Ottoman Empire. | 10 | |
| 12760304821 | Informal Empires | *Definition:* Area dominated by Western powers but retained own government and measure of independence. *Significance:* Allowed people to be independent but also be helpful and useful to European powers (similar climate areas). | 11 | |
| 12760304822 | Tokugawa Japan | *Definition:* Time known as great PEACE. *Significance:* Hostage system: Shoguns retained power. Spouses and children of important families kept at the capital (4 social classes). |  | 12 |
| 12760304823 | Meiji Restoration | *Definition:* Series of Events that restored imperial rule in Japan under Emperor Meiji (1868). *Significance:* Marked Japan's opening to the West and establishment of strong centralized government. | 13 | |
| 12760304824 | Russo-Japanese War | *Definition:* War fueled by Japanese and Russian imperialism *Significance:* Showed how powerful the Japanese were and how weak the Russians were. Japan won and forced Russia to change and industrialize. | 14 |