Chapter 31

Question 1

The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was?

Answer 1

Egypt

Question 2

Who was Muhammad Ali?

Answer 2

The Egyptian leader who overthrew Ottoman control.

Question 3

Which of the following statements is NOT true about the capitulations?

Answer 3

They were imposed on the Europeans by the Ottomans.

Question 4

In the early nineteenth century, the Ottoman sultan Selim III?

Answer 4

Was locked up by the Janissaries because they considered his reform a threat. Embarked on a program to remodel his army along the lines of European forces.

Question 5

What’s was the name of the sultan who in 1826 had mutinous Janissaries slaughtered and thus opened the door for further reform within the Ottoman Empire?

Answer 5

Mahmud II

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a reform proposed in the Tanzimat era?

Answer 6

A democracy as the government model for the impart.

A commercial code

Question 7

The Young Ottomans were?

Answer 7

Opposed the Tanziment reforms

Question 8

Sultan Abdül Hamid II?

Answer 8

Ruled his despotically, but also followed Tabzimant principles

Question 9

The stipulation, “ In order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogeneous and uniform character, the official schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted,” is from what document?

Answer 9

The proclamation of the Young Turks

Question 10

Which of the following Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?

Answer 10

Turkish as the official language of the empire

Question 11

Which of the following accounts for the beginning of the social reform movement in Russia and a stop in expansion during the nineteenth century?

Answer 11

Military defeat. In the Crimean war

Question 12

The sky to social reform in Russia, Russian serfs were emancipated by _______, which resulted in _____.

Answer 12

Emancipation of the serfs ; Tsar Alexander II

Question 13

As part of Russian reforms, during the reign of Alexander II, the government created zenstvos,?

Answer 13

They were elected district assemblies. That remained subordinate to the Tsarist autocracy

Question 14

Sergei Witte was the prime mover behind Russian industrialization. What was the main idea behind his policy?

Answer 14

A massive program of military construction

Question 15

The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St.Petersburg and Moscow?

Answer 15

They were terrible and left the workers receptive to revolution propaganda

Question 16

After the assassination of Alexander II was assassinated by an agent of the land and freedom party, his successor Nicholas II,?

Answer 16

Championed oppression and police control. Embarked on expansionist ventures in east Asia.

Question 17

The decisive factor in the Russo-Japanese War, an event that best displayed Japan’s rise to the level of a world power, was the?

Answer 17

The destruction of the Russian Navy in battle with the Japanese

Question 18

In 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre eventually?

Answer 18

It led to the establishment of the Duma in Russia

Question 19

Lin Zexu, who wrote “As months accumulate and years pass by, the poison they have produced increases in its wicked intensity and its repugnant odor reaches as high as the sky” was?

Answer 19

Was in charge of stopping the opium trade in China

Question 20

What was the decisive point in the opium war?

Answer 20

The British threat of the grand canal

Question 21

The Opium war ended with the signing of the treaty of?

Answer 21

Nanjing

Question 22

Which of the following was NOT one of the principles of the Taiping rebellion?

Answer 22

Hong Xuiquan’s belief that he was the reincarnation of the Buddha

Question 23

The self strengthening movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in?

Answer 23

China

Question 24

For most of the last fifty years of the Qing dynasty, China was ruled by?

Answer 24

Cixi

Question 25

By the end of the nineteenth century, the only thing keeping China from being completely divided up into spheres of influence by foreigners was?

Answer 25

Distrust among the foreign powers

Question 26

Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were the leaders of the?

Answer 26

Hundred day reforms

Question 27

In 1900, foreign embassies in China were besieged by?

Answer 27

The society of righteous and harmonious fists

Question 28

Japan was forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the?

Answer 28

Americans. U.S

Question 29

The Meiji reformers, including Ito Hirobumi, actively copied the Western Europeans and Americans, because?

Answer 29

They understood the dangers of those two groupings

Question 30

Which of the following was NOT one of the foundations of the Meiji restoration?

Answer 30

Turning Japan into a constitutional republic

Question 31

The event that best displayed Japan’s rise to the level of a world power was their victory in the?

Answer 31

Russo-Japanese War

Question 32

In 1851, the leader of the Taiping rebellion, ________, proclaimed his own dynasty, the Taiping tianguo, which meant, _____________.

Answer 32

Hong Xiuquan ; “Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace”