
Memory Game AP World Ch. 19 Part 1Online version AP World Ch. 19 Terms Part 1 by Paula Workman Informal Empire massive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of China between 1850 and 1864; it was based on the millennium teachings of Hong Xiquan. Boxer Rebellion Rulers of Japan from 1600 to 1868. Term commonly used to describe areas that were dominated by Western powers in the 19th century but that retained their own governments and a measure of independence, e.g., Latin America and China. Tokugawa Shogunate U.S. navy commodore who in 1852 presented the ultimatum that led Japan to open itself to more normal relations with the outside world. Taiping Uprising "the Sick Man of Europe" Ending in a Japanese victory, this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in East Asia and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1905. Matthew Perry Self-strengthening Movement Rebellion led by Chinese militia organizations (1898-1901) in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed. Russo-Japanese War Young Ottomans Feudal lords of Japan who retained substantial autonomy under the Tokugawa shogunate and only lost their social preeminence in the Meiji restoration Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a name based on the Ottoman sultans' inability to prevent Western takeover of many regions and to deal with internal problems; it fails to recognize serious reform efforts in the Ottoman state during this period. Daimyo Group of would-be reformers in the mid-19th-century Ottoman Empire that included lower-level officials, military officers, and writers; they urged the extension of Westernizing reforms to the political system. China's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West.

Memory Game

AP World Ch. 19 Part 1Online version

AP World Ch. 19 Terms Part 1

by Paula Workman

Informal Empire

massive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of China between 1850 and 1864; it was based on the millennium teachings of Hong Xiquan.

Boxer Rebellion

Rulers of Japan from 1600 to 1868.

Term commonly used to describe areas that were dominated by Western powers in the 19th century but that retained their own governments and a measure of independence, e.g., Latin America and China.

Tokugawa Shogunate

U.S. navy commodore who in 1852 presented the ultimatum that led Japan to open itself to more normal relations with the outside world.

Taiping Uprising

"the Sick Man of Europe"

Ending in a Japanese victory, this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in East Asia and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1905.

Matthew Perry

Self-strengthening Movement

Rebellion led by Chinese militia organizations (1898-1901) in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed.

Russo-Japanese War

Young Ottomans

Feudal lords of Japan who retained substantial autonomy under the Tokugawa shogunate and only lost their social preeminence in the Meiji restoration

Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a name based on the Ottoman sultans' inability to prevent Western takeover of many regions and to deal with internal problems; it fails to recognize serious reform efforts in the Ottoman state during this period.

Daimyo

Group of would-be reformers in the mid-19th-century Ottoman Empire that included lower-level officials, military officers, and writers; they urged the extension of Westernizing reforms to the political system.

China's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West.