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AP World History Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Muhammad Ali | Leader of Egyptian modernization |
Janissaires | Infantry of captured Christian boys armed with firearms that served the Ottoman Empire |
Serbia | Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control |
Tanizmat | Restructuring reforms in the Ottoman Empire |
Crimean War | Conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire |
Extraterritoriality | The right of foreign residents to follow their own laws and disregard the laws of the host country |
Young Ottomans | Promoted a mixture of liberal ideas from Europe, national pride in Ottoman independence and modernist views of Islam |
Salvaophiles | Russian intellectuals who favored resisting Western European influences |
Pan-Slavism | Military political doctrine unifying all the Slavic people |
Decembrist Revolt | Abortive attempt by army officers to take control of the Russian government |
Opium War | War between the British and the Qing Empire in the birtish view, started by the Qing Empire refusing to permit the importation of opium |
Bannermen | Hereditary military servants of the Qing Empire |
Treaty of Nanking | The treaty that ended the Opium War |
Treaty ports | Cities openede in China to foreign residents as a result of unequal treaties forced upon them by western powers |
most favored nation status | Any privleges that China granted to another country would be automatically extenede to britian as well |
Taiping Rebellion | A Christian inspired rurual rebellion that threatened to topple the Qing Empire |