Ch 18 IDS Flashcards
Boxer Rebellion
was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1898 and 1900.
Mine: anti-foreign and anti-christian movements
Anarchists
a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power
Mine: A rebellor
Canton System
a means for China to control trade with the west within its own country by focusing all trade on the southern port of Canton
Mine: trade from the canton port
Catherine the Great
was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia
Mine: famous russian leader
Crimean War
was a conflict in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia.
Mine: 1853-1856
Cult of the Emporer
emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority of the Roman State.
Mine: Powerful emporers
Decembrist Revolt
Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I’s assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession.
Mine: december 26, 1825
Diet
Congress
Mine: meeting
Duma
council assemblies which were created by the Czar of Russia.
Mine: assemblies
Holy Alliance
was a coalition created by the monarchist great powers of Russia, Austria and Prussia.
Mine: Great alliance in russia
Hong Xiuquan
was a Hakka Chinese who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty
Mine: Rebellion leader against qing
Intelligentsia
intellegentia is a social class of people engaged in complex mental labour aimed at disseminating culture.
Mine: social class
McCartney mission
was a British embassy to China in 1793
Mine: british embassy
Meiji Restoration
a chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under the Meiji Emperor
Mine: events that led to meiji being leader
Most favored-nation states
status or level of treatment accorded by one state to another in international trade
Mine: status
