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Question 0

In 1851, Hong Xiuquan proclaimed his own dynasty, the Taiping tianguo, which meant

Answer 0

Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace

Question 1

The leader of the Taiping rebellion was

Answer 1

Hong Xiuquan.

Question 2

The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was

Answer 2

Egypt

Question 3

Muhammad Ali was

Answer 3

the Egyptian leader who overthrew Ottoman control.

Question 4

The capitulations were unfair trading agreements between the western Europeans and the

Answer 4

Ottomans

Question 5

NOT true about the capitulations?

Answer 5

They were imposed on the Europeans by the Ottomans.

Question 6

In the early nineteenth century, the Ottoman sultan Selim III

Answer 6

was locked up by the Janissaries because they considered his reforms a threat

Question 7

What was the name of the sultan who, in 1826, had mutinous Janissaries slaughtered and thus opened the door for further reform within the Ottoman empire?

Answer 7

Mahmud 2

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a reform proposed in the Tanzimat era?

Answer 8

democracy as the governmental model for the empire

Question 9

The Young Ottomans were

Answer 9

fiercely opposed to the Tanzimat reforms.

Question 10

Sultan Abdül Hamid II

Answer 10

ruled despotically but also followed Tanzimat principles

Question 11

NOT one of the leading principles of the Young Turks?

Answer 11

Islam as the guiding principle in public life

Question 12

Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?

Answer 12

Turkish as the official language of the empire

Question 13

The stipulation, “In order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogeneous and uniform character, the official schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted,” is from what document?

Answer 13

The proclamation of young turks

Question 14

What began the social reform movement in Russia in the nineteenth century?

Answer 14

Military defeats

Question 15

A defeat in the Crimean War stopped expansion by the

Answer 15

Russians

Question 16

key to social reform in Russia was

Answer 16

Emancipation of serfs

Question 17

The Russian serfs were emancipated by

Answer 17

Alexander 2

Question 18

The emancipation of the Russian serfs

Answer 18

resulted in little if any increase in agricultural production.

Question 19

As part of the Russian reforms, during the reign of Alexander II the government created zemstvos,
Which were

Answer 19

which were elected district assemblies.

Question 20

The prime mover behind Russian industrialization was

Answer 20

Sergei Witte.

Question 21

The centerpiece of Sergei Witte’s Russian industrial policy was

Answer 21

a massive program of railway construction.

Question 22

The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St. Petersburg and Moscow

Answer 22

were terrible and left the workers receptive to revolutionary propaganda.

Question 23

Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by

Answer 23

an agent of the Land and Freedom Party.

Question 24

After the assassination of Alexander II, his successor Nicholas II

Answer 24

championed oppression and police control.

Question 25

The decisive factor in the Russo-Japanese War was the

Answer 25

destruction of the majority of the Russian navy in battle with the Japanese.

Question 26

The 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre eventually

Answer 26

led to the establishment of the Duma in Russia.

Question 27

Lin Zexu was

Answer 27

in charge of stopping the opium trade in China.

Question 28

The decisive point in the Opium War was

Answer 28

the British threat to the Grand Canal

Question 29

The Opium War ended with the signing of the Treaty of

Answer 29

Nanjing

Question 30

Who wrote, “As months accumulate and years pass by, the poison they have produced increases in its wicked intensity, and its repugnant odor reaches as high as the sky”?

Answer 30

Lin Zexu

Question 31

NOT a rebellion that threatened China in the nineteenth century?

Answer 31

Mongol

Question 32

NOT one of the principles of the Taiping rebellion?

Answer 32

Hong Xuiquan’s belief that he was the reincarnation of the Buddha

Question 33

The Self-Strengthening Movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in

Answer 33

China

Question 34

For most of the last fifty years of the Qing dynasty, China was ruled by

Answer 34

Cixi

Question 35

By the end of the nineteenth century, the only thing keeping China from being completely divided up into spheres of influence by foreigners was

Answer 35

distrust among the foreign powers.

Question 36

Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were the leaders of the

Answer 36

Hundred Days reforms.

Question 37

In 1900, foreign embassies in China were besieged by

Answer 37

the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists.

Question 38

Japan was forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the

Answer 38

Americans

Question 39

Meiji reformers actively copied the western Europeans and Americans because

Answer 39

they understood the danger of those two groups and wanted to find a way to avoid commercial and/or imperial domination by either one.

Question 40

Which leader played a major role in the Meiji restoration?

Answer 40

Ito Hirobumi

Question 41

NOT one of the foundations of the Meiji restoration?

Answer 41

turning Japan into a constitutional republic

Question 42

The event that best displayed Japan’s rise to the level of a world power was their victory in the

Answer 42

Russo-Japanese War

Question 43

T/F: The Russo-Japanese war began with a Russian surprise attack on a Japanese naval squadron in February 1904

Answer 43

FALSE backwards