Vocab - Empires In Collision Flashcards
Taiping uprising
massive civil war that was waged in China between the Manchu Qing dynasty and the Han
Opium wars
wars fought between Western Powers and China after restricting the importation of foreign goods, especially opium
Commissioner Lin Zexu
Chinese scholar-official of the Qing dynasty best known for his role in the First Opium War
Unequal treaties
The agreements reached between the Western powers and China following the Opium Wars that gave foreigners privileged status and extracted concessions from the Chinese
Informal empire
Area dominated by Western powers but retained own government and measure of independence
Self strengthening
China’s program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West
Boxer uprising
an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901
“The sick man of Europe”
Western Europe’s unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Tanzimat
series of reforms spread in the Ottoman Empire between 1839 and 1876
Young ottomans
Group of would-be reformers in the mid-19th-century Ottoman Empire that included lower-level officials, military officers, and writers
Young Turks
Movement of Turkish military and civilian elites that developed in 1900, eventually bringing down the Ottoman Empire
Tokugawa Japan
the military government that ruled over Japan from 1603 until 1868
Meiji restoration
The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization and imperialism
Russo Japanese war
military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in East Asia
