Chpt. 24-15 Test Flashcards
The war for Greek independence resulted in the
Defeat of the ottomans by the combined Russian, British, and french fleets
Which of the following was not among the earliest reforms of the Ottoman Empire?
Implementation of laws to protect women and children from abuse and abandonment
The shari’a retained legal control over which area?
Family law
Examples of westernization are seen in all of the following examples except:
Allowing women in universities
“Most-favored-nations status” meant that
Any beneficial opportunities extended by China to another nation had to be offered to Britain as well
Women in the taiping rebellion were
Organized into military brigades
The Zulu kingdom arose primarily because of
Internal conflicts over grazing and farm lands
The largest of the new Muslim reform movements occurred in which area?
Hausa
The root cause of the Crimean war was
Russia’s desire to expand south for naval access to the Mediterranean Sea
Muhammad Ali’s creation of modern Egypt was shaped by the shock of
Napoleons occupation of Egypt
One of the largest personal empires created in the ivory exchange market was by
Tippu tip
Sepoys were Indian troops who
Were hired and trained to protect european companies warehouses
One of the critical features for Britain’s control of india at the local level was with the use of
Sepoys
A significant impetus to increasing global commercial expansion in the nineteenth century included
Clipper ships
After British slave emancipation in 1834, new plantation workers came from
All of these
Most indentured servants left their homes because they
Hoped to better their economic and social position
Sepoy rebellion
- Revolt of Indian soldiers
- 1750-1870
- was against certain practices that violates religious customs
Indian national congress
- A movement/political party
- 1750-1870
- demanded greater Indian participation in government
Extraterritoriality
- Right of foreign residents to he tried for a crime in their home country
- 1750-1870
- imperialist idea
Taiping rebellion
- Christian inspired rural rebellion
- 1750-1870
- threatened to topple Qing empire
Crimean war
- conflict between Russia and ottoman empires
- 1750-1870
- fought to prevent Russian expansion
Muhammad Ali
- leader of Egyptian modernization
- 1750-1870
- ruled as a ottoman governor
The fez became part of Turkish military dress because
Because they accepted european military dress but couldn’t wear european military caps because they interfered with soldiers touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer
There was a significant decline in ottoman trade because
•it lowered tariffs to favor European Imports= imported goods multiplied but exported goods remained the same= foreign debt
After Alexander I died
Socialize and suspicion of modern ideas took place of reform (Nicolas I)
Pan-slavism
A militant political doctoring advocating unity of all the Slavic peoples
What caused the population pressure in China?
The recovery of farmland, opening uncultivated areas, and restoration/expansion of the road and canal systems
The opium war exposed
That Qing had weak land forces
Egypt used cotton as an export until
The American civil war ended and America began exporting cheaper cotton
Ethiopia was different from other African countries because
- last to be taken from British
* Christian
Why did slave trade end?
Britain got involved with stopping Slavs trade
Africans got European goods after the slave trade ended by
Using legitimate trade like palm oil
What changes occurred in India after the sepoy rebellion
- new centralized gov.
- rapid economy growth
- developed a new national consciousness
Major disease in India
Cholera
British changed what for women in India?
- Widow burning was banned
- female infanticide was made illegal
- prohibitions against women remarrying were revoked
