Constructe in 1870s to connect European Russia with Pacific. Completed by the end of the 1880s
What is Trans-Siberian Railroad
100
War between Japan and Russia (1904-1905) over territory in Manchuria; Japan defeated the Russians.
What is Russo-Japanese War
100
Battle in 1757 between troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army.
What is Battle of Plassey
100
Socialist movements that at least tacitly disavowed Marxist revolutionary doctrine
What is Revisionism
100
Rebellion of English American colonies along Atlantic seaboard
What is American Revolution
200
Russian term denoting articulate intellecutals as a class.
What is Intelligentsia
200
Commoner schools founded during the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan to teach reading.
What is Terakoya
200
Troops that served the British East India Company
What is Sepoys
200
Movements to create independent nations within the Balkan possessions of the Ottoman Empire
What is Balkan nationalism
200
Adopted during the French Revolution, stated the fundamental equality of all French citizens
What is Declarations of the Righs of Man
300
Agricultural entrepreneurs who utilized the Stolypin and later NEP reforms to increase agricultural production.
What is Kulaks
300
Japanese Parliament established as part of the new constitution of 1889; part of Meiji Reforms.
What is Diet
300
Name given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes
What is Nabobs
300
French scientist who discovered relationship between germs and disease
What is Louis Pasteur
300
German socialist who blasted earlier socialist movements as utopian.
What is Karl Marx
400
National parliament created in Russia in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1905. Progressively stripped of power during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II.
What is Duma
400
Group of Japanese scholars interested in implications of Western science and technology beginning in the 17th century.
What is Dutch Studies
400
Location of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies
What is Isandhlwana
400
Rebellion in Greece against the Ottoman Empire
What is Greek Revolution
400
Political system in late 19th century Italy that promoted alliance.
What is trasformismo
500
Fought between 1854 and 1856 began as Russian attempt to attack Ottoman Empire. Russia opposed by France and Britain as well. Resulted in Russian defeat in the face of Western industrial technology
What is Crimean War
500
Huge industrial combines created in Japan in the 1890s as part of the process of industrialization
What is Zaibatsu
500
Colonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majoirty of the populations.
What is White Dominions
500
Meeting in the aftermath of Napoleonic Wars (1815) to restore political stability.
What is Congress of Vienna
500
Fought between 1889 and 1902 over continued independence of Boer republics.