Chapter 31
Tanzimat legal reforms included all of the following rights EXCEPT
women's right to sue for divorce.
The Ottoman military had declined by the nineteenth century because
All these answers are correct.
The emancipation of Russian serfs in 1861
All these answers are correct.
By 1913, all of the following provinces gained either independence or autonomy from Ottoman control EXCEPT
Anatolia
The Russian empire was defeated in the Crimean War because
Britain and France joined forces to prevent Russian expansion into the Ottoman empire.
Which of the Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?
Turkish as the official language of the empire
The most significant achievement of Sultan Mahmud II was the
creation of a modern army.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman empire, Russian empire, Qing dynasty, and Tokugawa Japan were "societies at crossroads" because they
discovered through wars and confrontations that they were militarily much weaker than the western powers.
The "capitulations" were humiliating concessions to the west that
held European citizens exempt from Ottoman laws and taxes.
Which of the following was NOT part of Witte's policy of industrialization?
nationalization of key industries such as coal and steel