24 Flashcards

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A christian people concentrated in the eastern mountains of the Ottoman Empire

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Armenians

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1860s reformers imported western technology, setting up factories to make modern weapons.

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“Self-strengthening movement”

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Divided Africa up between western powers.

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Berlin Conference

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Involved bitter guerrilla fighting. British won but at great cost. War was caused by diamonds in Boer lands in cape colony

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Boer War

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Journalist who went to central Africa to find Livingstone. Tracked him down in 1871

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Henry Stanley

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Created by nationalist leaders. Members believed in peaceful protest to gain their ends. Looked forward to self-rule as supported western style modernism

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Indian national congress

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King of Belgium. He hired Stanly to explore the Congo river basin and arrange trade treaties with African leaders

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King Leopold II

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An ambitious soldier appointed governor of Egypt by the Ottomans

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Muhammad Ali

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Women military leader of the Shona in Zimbabwe

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Nehanda

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Angry sepoys rose up against their British officers. Swept across northern and center so India

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Sepoy Rebellion

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A colony organized by British in Western Africa for former slaves

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Sierra Leone

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Applying survival of the fittest to human societies

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Social Darwinism

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A passionate spokesman for a Chinese republic(nationalist). He organized the “three principals of the people”(nationalism,representative gov, economic security)

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Sun Yixian

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Most devastating peasant revolt in history. (Irrigation failure,pop expulsion at beginning of the century,hardships on peasants,widespread court corruption)

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Taiping Rebellion

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Arabian-return to the time of Muhammad’s original teachings.

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Wahhabi

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Emerged as a major force in Southern Africa under ruthless and brilliant leader Shaka

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Zulus

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A well-known explorer and missionary who traveled across Africa for 30 years

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David Livingstone

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The one territory in Africa that remained independent

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Ethiopia

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An idea to completely modernize China in a hundred days (guang xu)

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Hundred days of reform

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An unequal treaty the British gave China after the opium war (British got indemnity and extraterritoriality)

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Treaty of Nanjing

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An unequal treaty the the British gave China after the opium war (British got indemnity and extraterritoriality)

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Treaty of Nanjing