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CH25AgeofImperialism
Land empires during the age of Imperialism keyterms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Janissaries | infantry, originally slaves, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army |
| Serbia | the ottoman province in the balkans that rose up against Janissary control |
| Tanzimat | restructuring reforms by th 19th century ottoman rulers, intended to move more civil law away from the control of religious elites and make military and bureaucracy more efficient |
| Crimean War | conflict between the russian and ottoman empires fought primarily in the crimean peninsula. to prevent russian expansion the british and france sent troops to support the ottoman empire |
| Extraterritoriality | the right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native country and disregard the laws of the host country. |
| Young Ottomans | movement of young intellectuals to institute liberal reforms and build a feeling of national identity in the ottoman empire |
| Slavophile | russian intellectuals in the earlt 19th century who favored resisting western european influences and taking pride in the traditional peasant values and institutions of the slavic people |
| Pan-Slavism | movement among russian intellectuals in the second half of the 19th century to identify culturally and politically with the slavic peoples of eastern europe |
| December Revolt | abortive attempt by army officers to take control of the russian government upon the death of Tsar Alexander I in 1825 |
| Opium War | War between britain and the qing empire occasioned by the qing governments refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories |
| Bannerman | hereditary military servants of the qing empire |
| Treaty of Nanking | the treaty that concluded the opium war, awarded britain a large indemnity from the qing empire |
| treaty ports | cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the qing empire and foreign signatories |
| Most-Favored-Nation Status | a clause in a commercial treaty that awards to any signatories all the privileges previously granted to the original signatories |
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