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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| catherine the great | expanded russian territory; introduced enlightenment ideas; crushed revolts and took back reforms |
| alexander I | stopped french advance to russia; holy alliance; romanticism; culture reflected western ideas |
| nicholas I | decembrist uprising; crushed revolts; expanded into ottoman territory; no industry; more labor for serfs |
| alexander II | emancipation edict; mir; cut back on punishments; trials were open to public; military improved; education spread; women's status improved; industry was state sponsored; led to revolts |
| alexander III | opposed reforms; intensified secret police; russification; repressed poles and jews |
| nicholas II | revolution of 1905; october manifesto; stolypin reforms |
| decembrist uprising | revolt of western oriented army officers against the czar |
| emancipation edict | document that freed the Russian serfs |
| kulaks | landlords who bought up more land |
| pan-slavic | political ideology and unity for slavic people; russia will help slavic nations |
| russification | forcing other ethnic groups to learn russian |
| vladimir lenin | leader and revolutionary; marxism; formed communist party; believed could skip middle class phase |
| pushkin | poet who used romantic ideas to celebrate russia |
| anarchists | political groups who wanted to get rid of formal government in western; apparent in russia; killed Alexander II |
| october manifesto | document that created a parliament |
| duma | parliament |
| crimean war | Russian attempt to gain Ottoman empire; france and britain joined ottomans; russia lost |
| holy alliance | alliance of Russia, Prussia, and Austria; defended each other against liberal ideas |
| tokugawa | shogunate in japan |
| shogun | leader of japan; centralized feudalism; daimyos and samurais controlled most of japan |
| daimyo | landlords of tokugawa japan |
| samurai | warriors of tokugawa japan |
| meiji restoration | japan's modernization period |
| yataro | started mitsubishi |
| eiichi | went from being a peasant to very wealthy by investing other's money |
| zabatsu | wealthy families who controlled certain aspects of the economy |
| prefects | an area administrator; similar to a mayor; replaced daimyo |
| dutch studies | group of japanese scholars who brought in western technology; wanted freer trade with west; located in nagasaki |
| diet | parliament set up in japan |
| terakoya | school for commoners |
| improved infrastructure; serfs were emancipated; meritocracy | characteristics of russian reform |
| women's status improved; education spread was was scarce; trials were open to the public; parents weren't involved | social changes under alexander II |
| marxism- survival of the fittest utilitarianism- western education makes people the best | karl marx vs. john stuart mill |