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What was the significance of the opium trade in China in the nineteenth century |
It reversed the trade imbalance in favor of Britain |
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How was tje Taiping Uprising different from other peasant rebellions in China |
Its program included the abolition of private property |
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What was a consequence of the Taiping Uprising |
The provincial gentry consolidated their power at the expense of the central state |
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In light of what was happening to china as depicted in Map 19.1 in the textbook which of the following phrases was used by many Chinese to describe their country doing nineteenth century |
"Carved up like a melon" |
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What reflects the goal of the policies introduced by the Chinese state in the 1860s and 1870s to address the problems facing China |
To reinvigorate China by selectively borrowing from the West |
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What characterized the goal of the Tanzimat reforms initiated by the Ottoman leadership in the mid-nineteenth century |
To establish the economic, social, and legal foundation for a strong centralized state |
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Critics of industrialization who argue that the Industrial Revolution was a failure generally base their interpretation on what criterion |
Preservation of the environment |
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What contributed to China 's problem in the nineteenth century |
The state's failure to maintain flood control and public security |
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Islam retained a hold on its civilization in the twentieth century more firmly than Confucianism did in China because Islamic civilization |
Had many independent centers |
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What was an anti- foreign movement that erupted in northern China at the turn of the twentieth century and seriously weakened the Qing dynasty |
The Boxer Uprising |
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What did the Young Turks advocate |
A militantly secular Turkish national state |
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What characterizes Japanese colonial policies in Taiwan and Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
Japanese colonialism matched or exceeded the brutality of European colonialism |
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What was target for attack in the new nationalism that emerged in China at the turn of the twentieth century |
The Qing dynasty |
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What could countries with a sphere of influence in China do within their respective spheres |
Build railroads |
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The capitulations between European countries and the Ottoman Empire were similar to |
The uanequal treaties between European countries and China |
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What was contributed to the contraction of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century |
Nationalist-inspired independence movements in Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania |
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In what respect were Qing China and the Ottoman Empire similar in the nineteenth century |
Both were semi-colonies within the informal empires of Europe |
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How did Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 affect the Ottoman Empire |
The Ottoman Empire lost Egypt as a province |
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What was a goal of the Young Ottoman |
The establishment of a European-style democratic, constitutional regime |
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In the nineteenth century, which group in the Ottoman Empire advocated a program of radical secularization and modernization along European lines |
Young Turks |
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What was the only country outside of Europe and North America to successfully launch its own a Industrial Revolution |
Japan |
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The many rules ans regulations issued by the Tokugawa shogunate reflect its goal to |
Freeze Japanese society in the interest of stability |
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What development during the Tokugawa era provided a solid foundation for Japan's industrial growth in the late nineteenth century |
The urbanization of Japanese society |
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What reflects how Japanese society was changing during the Tokugawa era |
The participation od samurai in commerce |
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What did the Unites States expect to gain by sending a naval fleet to Japan im 1853 |
The opening of Japanese ports for trade |
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How did the leadership that emerged after the Meiji restoration in Japan respond to the threat of Western imperialism |
They used western models to transform Japan |
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Im what ways was Japan in a better position than China or the Ottoman Empire in its encounter with Western imperialism |
Japan was of less interest to the Western powers |
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What reflects the combination of foreign and Japanese elements characteristics of Meiji reforms in the late nineteenth century |
The Meiji constitution |
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What events established a Japan as an economic, political, and military competitor in Asia |
The Russo-Japanese War |
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What reflects a policy proposed during thw Hundred Days of Reforms in 1898 |
"... we must establish elementary and high schools, colleges and universities, in accordance with those of foreign countries..." |
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What statements reflects the Chinese female revolutionary Qiu Jin's argument for a greater role for women in public life |
You must know that when a country is near destruction, women cannot rely on the men anymore because they aren't even able to protect themselves." |
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What aspects of the painting of Japanese women |
The scenery in the background |
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The cartoon below drawn by Kobayashi Kiyochika invokes what to make its point |
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution |
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What is a similarity between the Ottoman and Chinese government during the period 1450-1750 |
An extensive gobermantal bureaucracy |
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The image from Japan during the Meiji restoration best exemplifies what processes |
Cultural changes accompanying greater contact with the United States |
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Japan industrialization during the meiji. And the soviet union industrialization during in 1920 and 1930 had what characteristics in common |
Industrialization in both countries was achieved largely through state direction rather than private initiative |
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What describes an accurate similarity between the Qing and Russian empires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries |
Both had vast territories with people's of various ethnicities and languages |
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After the abdication of the last Qing emperor in China in 1912, the new republican government adopted a new national flag in what five stripes represented the five main ethnic groups: the Han Chinese, the Manchus, the Tibetans, the Uighurs, and the Mongols. The adoption of the new flag is an example of what processes |
Governmental efforts of multinational states to promote a new nationalist identify what would help prevent the emergence of ethnic separatism |
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What contributed the most to the Ottoman Empire successful expansion in Europe and the Middle East in the period from 1450-1609 |
The Ottomans adoption of the latest gunpowder and artillery technology |
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The african proverb, " Untill the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter, " conveys what |
History usually reflects the viewpoint of the victors |
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Zeng Guofan's analysis of the situation in China in 1854 was likely influenced by what |
The confucian notion of the dynastic cycle |
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Zeng Guofan's purpose in listing the policies of the current Qing emperor is most likey to |
Mobilize popular support by showing that the Taiping rebellion does not represent a legitimate challenge to Qing rule |
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What development in the period 1878-1922 best explains the change in Japanese trade patterns shown in the graphs |
Japanese manufacturing output rose as a consequence of industrialization |
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What contributed most to the growth of nationalism in the period 1750-1914 |
European imperialism |
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What nations was the most attractive military model for thr nineteenth-century Japanese and Ottoman government officials |
The German Empire |
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After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan changed its policy toward conduct with the outside world by |
Seeking Western industrial expertise and equipment |
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What linked Great Britain, India, and China in the nineteenth century |
Opium |
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Late-nineteenth-century Japanes industrialization differed from late - eighteenth century British industrialization in that Japan's industrialization |
Was sponsored by the state |