Ap world history chapters 18 and 19 vocab Flashcards

13519273568	Scramble for Africa	The European's flurry of colonializations in Africa.	0
13519273569	British Raj	The name for the British government's military rule of India between 1858 and 1947.	1
13519273570	Leopold II	Belgian king who ruthlessly exploited the natives on his African land for personal gain.	2
13519273571	New Imperialism	The late-nineteenth-century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad.	3
13519273572	Submarine cables	underwater telegraphic cables, allowed for unprecedented international communication	4
13519273573	1869	Suez Canal completed	5
13519273574	Sepoy Mutiny/Rebellion	an 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India	6
13519273575	Berlin Conference	Meeting at which Europeans agreed on rules for colonizing Africa	7
13519273576	Dynamo	A machine that generates electricity	8
13519273577	Sick Man of Europe	Ottoman Empire	9
13519273578	Taiping Rebellion	a mid-19th century rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in China, led by Hong Xiuquan	10
13519273579	Opium War	a conflict between Britain and China, lasting from 1839 to 1842, over Britain's opium trade in China	11
13519273580	Tanzimat	A set of reforms designed to remake the Ottoman Empire on a western European model	12
13519273581	Treaty ports	ports that must remain open for international trade because of the signing of various treaties	13
13519273582	Meiji Restoration	the modernization and industrialization of Japan in the 1800's	14
13519273583	Young Turks	Young rebellious people in the Ottoman Empire who forced the Sultan to reform	15
13519273584	Extraterritoriality	Right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation.	16
13519273585	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	17
13519273586	Matthew Perry	commodore of the US Navy who opened up Japan with the Treaty of Kanagawa	18
13519273587	Treaty of nanking	a treaty with Britain and China that gave Hong Kong to Britain and opened 4 cities for trade	19
13519273588	Russo-Japanese War	War between Russia and Japan; Japan wins and takes parts of Manchuria under its control.	20
13519273589	Self-Strengthening Movement	A late nineteenth century movement in which the Chinese modernized their army and encouraged Western investment in factories and railways	21