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31 Cards in this Set
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Balkans |
A large region in southeastern Europe |
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Black Sea |
Obtained by the Ottomans, then lost by the Ottomans and obtained by the Russians |
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Mahmud II |
He ruled the Ottoman Empire during the period when Greece had obtained half it's freedom back |
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Serfs |
Virtual slavery |
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Catherine the Great |
Became the ruler of Russia after her husband died |
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Nicholas I |
Came to the throne of Russia in midst of a revolt |
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Decembrist Revolt |
A rebellion against Nicholas I |
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Michael Bakunin |
The father of Anarchism |
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Anarchy |
The concept of society without government |
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Fyodore Dostoevsky |
A Russian writer who embraced Eastern Orthodoxy |
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Leo Tolstoy |
A Russian writer who embraced the Sermon on the Mount |
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Alexander II |
He abolished serfdom and freed twenty-three million people out of sixty-three million people in Russia |
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Battle of Plassey |
This battle broke France's strength in India |
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Robert Clive |
Defeated a much larger Indian force of eighty thousand |
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Charter Act |
Gave the British crown control over all that the East India Company possessed |
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Sepoys |
Indian soldiers |
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Sepoy Mutiny |
Started when a rumor that meat grease had been rubbed on newly packaged rifles |
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Opium |
A drug the British sold to the Chinese in order to gain a favorable balance of trade. |
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Qing dynasty |
Also known as the Manchu dynasty, China came under domination as this dynasty weakened |
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Opium Wars |
A war between Britain and China |
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Hong Xiuquan |
The leader in one of the worst Chinese rebellions of all time |
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Taiping Rebellion |
Hong's followers grew to over one million |
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Boxer Rebellion |
The Society of Righteous and Harmonious fists |
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Guangxu |
Became ruler at age four |
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Empress Dowager Cixi |
Served as the actual ruler until Guangxu was fit to rule
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Hundred Days' Reform |
Implementing sweeping political, legal, and social changes in china. |
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Sino-Japanese war |
The war in which Japan convinced Korea to separate from China, and so Japan gained control over Korea |
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Spheres of influence |
Where all of the countries tried to influence China so they could have part of the Chinese land. |
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Treaty of Kanagawa |
This treaty opened Japan into trading with other nations |
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Meiji |
Enlightened rule |
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Russo-Japanese war |
This war forced the world to notice that Japan had developed into a world power. |
