Declining Empires
Japanese modernization and imperialism
Reforms
imperialism
anti-imperialism
100
This Empress Dowager ruled the Qing dynasty for most of the last fifty years in China.
Who is Cixi?
100
During this period in Japanese history, the government turned Japan into a political, military, and economic powerhouse of east Asia.
What is the Meiji period?
100
The Japanese heavily drew from this country's constitution when they drafted their own constitution.
What is Germany?
100
This poet who lived in India and England wrote a pro-imperialist poem "The White Man's Burden" as a means of encouraging the U.S. to impose colonial rule in the Philippines.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
100
This rebellion against British rule stemmed from the fact that cartridges for the rifles of soldiers were lubricated with pig and cow fat and from unfair treatment. The result of this rebellion was that the British abolished the Mughal empire and exiled the emperor Muhammad Bahadur Shah to Burma.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
200
These unfair agreements that exempted European visitors from Ottoman law that provided them with extraterritoriality powers.
What are capitulations?
200
The family that was toppled during the Meiji Restoration
Who are the Tokugawa?
200
Known as the "reorganization" era between 1839-1876 when radical restructuring of the Ottoman state took place
What is the Tanzimat?
200
During this, delegates of 12 European states and the U.S. and the Ottoman empire devised the ground rules for the colonization of Africa. In addition, they also decided how to partition Oceania in the Pacific.
What is the Berlin Conference?
200
This Filipino nationalist, known as the "George Washington" of his the Philippines, fought for Filipino sovereignty against the Spanish and the Americans.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
300
This sultan was spared by the Janissaries yet when he was in power he instituted reforms that included a new European-style army which caused conflict with the Janissaries. When they mutinied, he had them massacred by his loyal troops.
Who is Mahmud II?
300
This commodore arrived with a U.S. naval squadron in Tokyo Bay in 1853 and demanded that the shogun open Japan to diplomatic and commercial relations and sign a treaty of friendship.
Who is Matthew Perry?
300
This Russian minister of finance implemented policies designed to stimulate economic development, such as building the trans-Siberian railway and industrialization
Who is Sergei Witte?
300
This British colonial administrator was the driving force behind the doctrine of indirect rule, which the British employed in many of their African colonies. He wrote an influential book "The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa" and stressed the moral and financial advantages of using indigenous institutions when colonizing.
Who is Frederick Lugard?
300
Japan won international recognition of its colonial authority over this country and the Liaodong peninsula as a result of the Russo-Japanese War, a war that propelled Japan onto the imperialist stage in global affairs. An anti-imperialist movement known as the May Fourth Movement took place here as an expression of anti-imperialism.
What is Korea?
400
The stipulation "In order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogeneous and uniform character, the official schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted" is from a document/proclamation written by this group who advocated for a new state.
Who are the Young Turks or the Ottoman Society for Union and Progress?
400
When the Japanese remodeled their economy, there was a strong public-private relationship between government and businesses. As a result a concentration of enormous economic power was in the hands of a small group of people--a financial clique.
What is zaibatsu?
400
Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, leaders of this reform movement, published a series of treatises reinterpreting Confucian thought in a way that justified radical changes in the imperial system. The reformers of this movement sought to remake China into a powerful modern industrial society.
What are the Hundred Days Reforms?
400
This European power tended to focus on cultural imperialism and they invoked the "civilizing mission" as justification for their expansion into Africa and Asia. As a result, they would use direct rule, such as in West Africa.
What is France? (Or who are the French?)
400
This Bengali "father of modern India" argued for the construction of a society based on both modern European science and the Indian tradition of devotional Hinduism. He supported the end of sati and wanted to improve so men's rights.
Who is Ram Mohan Roy?
500
This empire expanded into three directions during the 19th century (east into Manchuria, south into the Caucasus and southwest toward the Mediterranean) and they attempted to created a protectorate over the Ottoman empire which eventually led to the Crimean War.
What is the Russian empire?
500
These two Meiji-era travelers, who went to the West (U.S. and Europe) and learned western ideas that influenced the Japanese officials when they created a new style of government.
Who are Fukuzawa Yukichi and Hirobumi?
500
This reform movement adopted the slogan "Chinese learning at the base, Western learning for use" and its leaders sought to blend Chinese cultural traditions with European industrial technology.
What is the Self-Strengthening Movement?
500
This group of Dutch settlers who were known at first as the Boers embraced the institution of slavery. They participated in the Great Trek.
Who are the Afrikaners?
500
This rebellion took place in Tanganyika (German East Africa) when a local prophet organized a rebellion against the Germans in east Africa. They sprinkled themselves with this, the name of the rebellion, which they believed would protect them from German weapons, but they were wrong.
What is the Maji-Maji Rebellion?
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