Ottoman Empire
What country took Algeria from the Ottomans?
France
What ruler (a former German princess) oppressed Russia's peasants even further by legalizing the sale of serfs separately from the land (basically making them slaves)?
Catherine the Great
What country did the Goforth missionaries go to?
China
Who fought in the Sino-Japanese War?
China and Japan
What is an Indian solder?
Sepoy
What modern country did the Ottoman Empire become?
Turkey
Why did Napoleon have to retreat from Russia?
The harsh winter and lack of food caused many of his men to die.
What dynasty ruled China from 1644 to its decline in the nineteenth century?
Qing (or Manchu)
What does "Meiji" mean?
Enlightened One
What 2 countries competed for control of India?
Britain and France
What ruler helped lay a foundation for modern Turkey?
Mahmud II
What Russian radical believed that society should not have a government (anarchy)?
(Michael) Bakunin
What did the opium trade do to the Chinese economy?
It caused it to decline, suffer, go in debt
What 2 countries signed the Treaty of Kanagawa?
Japan and the U.S.
Where did Robert Cliver (a British general) win a key victory?
Battle of Plassey
What country did Napoleon invade in northern Africa that was a territory of the Ottoman Empire?
What nation defeated Russia in 1905?
Japan (Russo-Japanese War)
What was the name of the "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists"?
Boxers
Who established the China inland mission; he was also known for adopting the local customs of the people (a new technique in evangelism)?
James Hudson Taylor
What law or reform gave the British Crown control over all that the East India Company possessed?
Charter Act
What country did Russia partition in order to continue its westward expansion?
Poland
Who put down the Decembrist revolt and thereby closing Russia off to Western ideas and culture?
Nicholas I
Who led the Hundred Days Reform- a modernization movement in China? (Hint: the reform failed because the leader was imprisoned by his "step-mother")
Guangzu
Who called himself a "Heavenly King" and Christ's brother- he was responsible for the Taiping Rebellion?
Hong Xiuquan
Who was the Russian Eastern Orthodox writer?
Dostoevsky