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Ch. 11 WHAP Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Taiping uprising | massive Chinese rebellion involving an odd form of Christianity and that wanted extreme changes in China. threatened the Qing dynasty, but then gentry landowners crushed it |
Opium wars | war between Great Britain and China, began as a conflict over the opium trade, ended with the Chinese treaty to the British- the opening of 5 Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges |
unequal treaties | trade treaties that China signed under pressure of invasion and gave Western powers trade benefits |
informal empire | The growing presence of Western power but the nation still keeps their power and independence. |
self-strengthening | a policy promoted by reformers toward the end of the Qing dynasty under which China would slightly adopt Western technology while keeping its Confucian values and institutions |
Boxer Uprising | A group of Chinese formed a secret society called The Righteous Harmonious Fists, their goal was to drive out foreign devils who were polluting the land with non traditional [Chinese] ways (kill christians). |
Sick Man of Europe | Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a name based on the sultans' inability to prevent Western takeover of many regions and to deal with internal problems |
Tanzimat | A set of reforms designed to remake the Ottoman Empire on a western European model |
Young Ottomans | Movement of young intellectuals to make liberal reforms and build a feeling of national identity in the Ottoman Empire in the late 1800s |
Young Turks | Young rebellious people in the Ottoman Empire who forced the Sultan to reform |
Meiji Restoration | giving back power to the emperor and the modernization and industrialization of Japan in the 1800's |