Ch 19 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Meiji restoration
When Matthew Perry forced the issue of trade with Japan, the Japanese caved and gave into European demands. Many Japanese people were upset by this decision and a brief Civil War broke out the conclusion was that a political young samurai group seized power. The meiji dismantled the shogunate and made their goal to save Japan from foreign domination by transforming Japanese society to drop on all the Western world had to offer.
Russo- Japanese war
After succeeding in war against Russia Japan became a formidable military competitor in East Asia. Widespread admiration among those Who saw Japan as a model for their own modern development and perhaps as an ally in the struggle against imperialism
Tokugawa
Japan while it was being governed by a shogun from the Tokugawa family. During this time Japan had more than two centuries of internal peace (peace without Civil War). Samurais became bureaucrats. And Japan became one of the world’s most urbanized countries if not the most nice country. Well functioning markets and a capitalist economy Fuzel with the influence of Confucianism and modern education to generate a remarkably literate population. Japan moved away from trying to be a military power into trying to be an economic power. The failure to deal with severe famine devoted confidence in the show during the early 1800s
Informal empires
Nations like china and india that were semi-colonies. They retained some independence in government but we’re not able to create industrial economies of strong states to send off European intrusion, and so europeans were able to control them “unofficially”
Young turks
And opposition group to Al hamid ii rule. They militarily advocated secular public life. They pushed to have secularized schools, cards, and law codes, while permitting elections and establishing a single law of family rights for all regardless of religion. They encouraged Turkish is the official language of the Empire and they opened many modern schools for woman
Sultan abd al hamid ii
resulting that excepted a constitution from the young Ottomans and an elected parliament. It was a short victory as under pressure with war in Russia but something soon suspended the reforms introverted to an older style of the spotted rule for the next 30 years
Young Ottomans
Can you class of people coming from lower-level jobs many of whom had a modern Western-style education. They were active in the middle of the 19th century and sought changes in the Ottoman political system. They favor the more European-style democratic, Constitutional politics
Tanzimat
Reforms or reorganizations that took place as the Ottoman leadership suck to provide economic, social and legal underpinnings for a strong and newly re-centralized state. Factories, mining operations, telegraphs, steamships, railroads, and modern Postal Service were part of this reorganization. It was a long process of modernization and westernization in the Ottoman Empire
The sick man of Europe
Is a name that was given to the Ottoman Empire by the great powers of the west. The Ottoman Empire was shrinking and losing territory, As the rest the world was modernizing. This is partially due to the empires reliance on expansion and the rest of the world’s advancement
Chinese Revolution of 1911
The year when the ancient imperial order that time that had governed in China for two millennia collapsed, with only a modest knowledge from organized revolutionaries. It was the end of a long era in China and the beginning of an immense struggle over the country’s future
Commissioner lin
A Chinese man who became the enforcer of China’s new policy to suppress the opium trade. He confiscated tens of thousands of pipes and rested many dealers. His work was a failure as the British government started the opium war and forced the sale of the drug
The boxer uprising
Many people in China hated the way that Europeans and change the country. In 1900, a secret society of warriors colonize the boxers, started attacking European and Chinese Christians. The Manchu government supported the boxes, hoping that they would get rid of the foreigners, but the rebellion was crush by the European soldiers. The the government became even weaker, and later there was a revolution in China
Self strengthening movement
Policies that sought to reinvigorate traditional China while borrowing cautiously from the west. A few factories were established, call mines were expanded and a telegraph system was initiated. So strengthening is overall program for China’s modernization was inhabited by fears of conservative leaders that thought urban and industrial development what a road to the power and privileges of the landlord class. The self strengthening movement ended when the boxer rebellion began in opposition to it
Unequal treaties
A series of treaties imposed by the British as result of the opium more. Chinese saw these treaties as seriously eroding their independence and saw The treaties as to controlling and making them dependent on Western
The opium wars
After Commissioner Lynn Byrne thousands of chests of opium and the Emperor banned all opium trade with Britain. The British made a serious attack on China, and because they were superior military early and neighborly they easily defeated the Chinese. After losing the war. China was forced to allow British merchants to trade at many Chinese ports
The Taiping rebellion
The Manchu government had become week, and in the 1850s a violent revolution, known as the typing rebellion broke out. As a result of unemployment, poverty, and starvation, and China’s growing population, Theaters of the revolution rejected Confucianism, Taoism, and be Buddhism finding their primary ideologue G ideology in the unique form of Christianity. It’s leader cleaned himself a younger brother of Jesus. They called for the abolition of private property, redistribution of land, in the end of prostitution and open talking. For more than 10 years, peasants all over China attacked the rulers and destroyed cities. By the time the Manchu emperor retained control in 1864, up to 20 million people have been killed
