Chapter 31 Flashcards
The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was?
Egypt
Who was Muhammad Ali?
The Egyptian leader who overthrew Ottoman control.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the capitulations?
They were imposed on the Europeans by the Ottomans.
In the early nineteenth century, the Ottoman sultan Selim III?
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.
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?
Mahmud II
Which of the following is NOT a reform proposed in the Tanzimat era?
A democracy as the government model for the impart.
A commercial code
The Young Ottomans were?
Opposed the Tanziment reforms
Sultan Abdül Hamid II?
Ruled his despotically, but also followed Tabzimant principles
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?
The proclamation of the Young Turks
Which of the following Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?
Turkish as the official language of the empire
Which of the following accounts for the beginning of the social reform movement in Russia and a stop in expansion during the nineteenth century?
Military defeat. In the Crimean war
The sky to social reform in Russia, Russian serfs were emancipated by _______, which resulted in _____.
Emancipation of the serfs ; Tsar Alexander II
As part of Russian reforms, during the reign of Alexander II, the government created zenstvos,?
They were elected district assemblies. That remained subordinate to the Tsarist autocracy
Sergei Witte was the prime mover behind Russian industrialization. What was the main idea behind his policy?
A massive program of military construction
The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St.Petersburg and Moscow?
They were terrible and left the workers receptive to revolution propaganda
After the assassination of Alexander II was assassinated by an agent of the land and freedom party, his successor Nicholas II,?
Championed oppression and police control. Embarked on expansionist ventures in east Asia.
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?
The destruction of the Russian Navy in battle with the Japanese
In 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre eventually?
It led to the establishment of the Duma in Russia
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?
Was in charge of stopping the opium trade in China
What was the decisive point in the opium war?
The British threat of the grand canal
The Opium war ended with the signing of the treaty of?
Nanjing
Which of the following was NOT one of the principles of the Taiping rebellion?
Hong Xuiquan’s belief that he was the reincarnation of the Buddha
The self strengthening movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in?
China
For most of the last fifty years of the Qing dynasty, China was ruled by?
Cixi
