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The leader of the Taiping Rebellion was

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Hong Xiuquan

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In 1851, Hong Xiuquan proclaimed his own dynasty, the Taiping tianguo, which meant

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\"Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace\"

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The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was

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Egypt

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Muhammad Ali was

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The egyptian leader who overthrew ottoman control

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The capitulations were unfair trading agreements between the western Europeans and the

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Ottoman sultans

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Which of the following is not true about the capitulations?

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they were imposed on the Europeans by the Ottomans

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In the early 19th century, the Ottoman Sultan Selim III

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Embarked on a program to remodel his army along the lines of European forces.

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What was the name of the Sultan who, in 1826, had mutinous Janissaries slaughtered and thus opened the door for further reform with the Ottoman Empire?

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Mahmud II

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Which of the following is not a reform proposed in the Tanzimat era?

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A commercial code

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The Young Ottomans were

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(Opposed the Tanzimat) A group who agitated for individual freedom, local autonomy, and political decentralization. Desired the establishment of a constitutional government along the lines of the British system. (Opposed the Tanzimat)

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Sultan Abdul Hamid II

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Was put in power by a group of radical dissidents from the Ottoman bureaucracy. Accepted a constitution, dissolved parliament, exiled many liberals, and executed others within a year. Ruled autocratically, developed army and administration according to TANZIMAT PRINCIPLES, and oversaw the formation of a police force, educational reforms, economic development, and construction of railroads.

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Which of the following was not one of the leading principles of the YOung Turks?

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Islam as the guiding principle in public life

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Which of the following Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?

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Making Turkish the official language of the empire

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The stipulation, \"in order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogenous and uniform character, the official schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted\" is rom what document?

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Proclamation of the Young Turks

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Which of the following accounts for beginning of the social reform movement in Russia in the 19th century?

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Military defeat in the Crimean War

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A defeat in the Crimean War stopped expansion by the

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Russian empire.

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The key to social reform in Russia was

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Emancipation of the serfs.

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The Russian serfs were emancipated by

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Tsar Alexander II

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The emancipation of the Russian serfs

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Resulted in little, if any, increase in agricultural production.

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As part of the Russian reforms, during the reign of Alexander II the government created zemstvos,

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which were elected district assemblies that remained subordinate to the tsarist autocracy.

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The prime mover behind Russian industrialization was

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Count Sergei Witte

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the centerpiece of Sergei Witte's Russian industrial policy was

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A massive program of railway construction that linked the far-flung regions of the Russian empire and also stimulated the development of other industries.

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The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St. Petersburg and Moscow

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Became notorious for the miserable working and living conditions of factory workers.

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Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by

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The People's Will, a terrorist faction of the Land and freedom party

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After the Assassination of Alexander II, his successor Nicholas II

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championed oppression and police control.

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The decisive factor in the Russo Japanese War was the

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Destruction of Russian navy

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The 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre eventually

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Led to labor unrest, peasant insurrections, student demonstrations, and mutinies in both the army and navy.

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Lin Zexu

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Confiscated and destroyed some twenty thousand chests of opium. Ignited a war that ended in a humiliating defeat for China

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The decisive point in the Opium War was

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When British forces decided to strike at the Grand Canal, \"the jugular vein\" of China, with the aid of steam-powered gunboats

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The Opium War ended with the signing of the Treaty of

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Nanjing

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Who wrote, \"As months accumulate and years pass by, the poison they have produced increases in its wicked intensity, and its repugnant odor reaches as high as the sky?\"

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Lin Zexu

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Which of the following was not a rebellion that threatened China in the nineteenth century?

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mongol

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Which of the following was not one of the principles of the Taiping Rebellion?

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Hong Xuiquan's belief that he was the reincarnation of the Buddha

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The Self-Strengthening Movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in

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China

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For most of the last fifty years of the Qing dynsty, China was ruled by

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Empress dowager Cixi, a former imperial concubine.

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By the end of the nineteenth century, the only thing keeping China from being completely divided up into spheres of influence by foreigners was

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Distrust amont the foreign powers.

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Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were the leaders of the

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Hundred Days Reforms

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In 1900, foreign embassies in China were besieged by

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The Boxers, or the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists.

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Japan was forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the

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U.S.

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they understood the danger of those two groups and wanted to find a way to avoid commercial and/or imperial domination by either one.

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They wanted to obtain the knowledge and expertise to strengthen Japan and win revisions of the unequal treaties.

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Which one of the following leaders played a major role in the Meiji Restoration?

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The boy emperor Mutsuhito or Meiji.

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which of the following was not one of the foundations of the meiji restoration?

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turning japan into a constitutional republic

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The event that best displayed Japan's rise to the level of a world power was their victory in the

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Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese wars.

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