Deck 20: D: Empires in Collision Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia 1800-1914

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Group of would-be reformers in the mid-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire that included lower-level officials,military officers,and writers;they urged the extension of Westernizing reforms to the political system.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Answer 1

Young Ottomans

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Battle in northern Ethiopia between Italian forces with African troops and the Ethiopian army on March 1,1896.The battle was a decisive victory for the Ethiopians and ensured that Ethiopia retained its independence in an era of rampant European empire building.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Answer 2

Battle of Adowa

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Important reform measures undertaken in the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1839.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Answer 3

Tanzimat

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The collapse of China's imperial order,officially at the hands of organized revolutionaries but for the most part under the weight of the troubles that had overwhelmed the government for the previous half-century.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The political takeover of Japan in 1868 by a group of young samurai from southern Japan.The samurai eliminated the shogun and claimed they were restoring to power the young emperor.The new government was committed to saving Japan from foreign domination by drawing upon what the modern West had to offer to transform Japanese society.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Ending in a Japanese victory,this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in East Asia and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1905.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Term commonly used to describe areas that were dominated by Western powers in the nineteenth century but that retained their own governments and a measure of independence,for example,Latin America and China.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,a name based on the 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.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Series of nineteenth-century agreements in which China made major concessions to Western powers.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Movement of Turkish military and civilian elites that developed at about 1900,eventually bringing down the Ottoman Empire.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Ottoman ruler who accepted a reform constitution but then quickly suppressed it,ruling as a reactionary autocrat for the rest of his long reign.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Royal official (1785-1850)charged with ending the opium trade in Canton,his concerted efforts to seize and destroy opium imports provoked the Opium Wars.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Attacks by Chinese militia organizations in 1900 in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
China's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s,based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 15

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Two wars fought between Western powers and China (1839-1842 and 1856-1858)after China tried to restrict the importation of foreign goods;China lost both wars and was forced to make major concessions.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 16

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Massive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of the country between 1850 and 1864;it was based on the millenarian teachings of Hong Xiuquan.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905

Question 17

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Era (1600 to 1868)during which Japan was under the rule of a shogun (military ruler)from a particular family.The country was at peace during this time and it operated under strict social rules meant to maintain stability.

A)Taiping Uprising
B)Opium Wars
C)Commissioner Lin
D)unequal treaties
E)self-strengthening movement
F)Boxer Uprising
G)Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H)"the sick man of Europe"
I)Tanzimat
J)Young Ottomans
K)Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L)Young Turks
M)informal empires
N)Battle of Adowa
O)Tokugawa Japan
P)Meiji Restoration
Q)Russo-Japanese War,1904-1905