Chapter 31 AP World
The capitulations were humiliating concessions to the west that
Held European citizens exempt from Ottoman laws and taxes
Where was opium grown
India
The British insisted on their right to trade opium with China because
It was the only trade good that they could sell in China at a profit
The Taiping rebellion was defeated when
Nanjing was defeated by a combined force of imperial and European soldiers
The success of the Meiji restoration depended on destroying the power of
The daimyo and samurai classes
The Meiji constitution promulgated in 1889 by the emperor gave the effective power to
The emperor
The most significant indication of the decline of Ottoman foreign influence in the 19th century was
The empire's loss of control in Egypt
The Opium War made plain the difference between
The military power of Europe and China
The centerpiece of Sergei Witte's Russian industrial policy was
A massive program of railway construction
What was the result of the reforms instituted by Mahmud II
A smaller empire that was more manageable
By 1913 all of the following provinces gained either independence or authority 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
Foreign merchants could deal only with specially licensed Chinese firms known as
Cohongs
The most significant achievement of Sultan Mahmud II was the
Creation of a modern army
The Russian expansion into the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire sparked the
Crimean War
Penalty for opium importation
Death
In China a sphere of influence was
District in which a foreign power had exclusive trade, transportation, and mineral rights
By 1898 France, Great Britain, and Japan had carved out ________ in China
Economic spheres of influence
After the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Crimean War, what did Tsar Alexander II do
Free the Russian serfs
The emancipation of Russian serfs in 1861
Intended to avert a revolution, bring freedom, and increase agricultural production
The capital of the early industrialization of Meiji Japan came from
Land taxes
Tanzimat refers to
Ottoman movement to reform and recognize the empire
The Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown because
The Japanese were outraged by the unequal treaty forced on them by Commodore Perry
Which country demanded permission to establish trade with Japan
The US
The Russian intelligentsia promoted terrorism as a strategy because
Their attempts at a more peaceful reform were crushed by Tsarists
What language did the Proclamation of Young Turks designate for official correspondence
Turkish
Which of the Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire
Turkish as the official language of the empire
How did the Russo-Japanese war conclude
With the destruction of the Russian navy