Chapter 19 Study Guide - Quia

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Robert W. Strayer’s Ways of the World
Chapter 19 Study Guide
Internal Troubles, External Threats: China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan
1800-1914
(pp. 877-903)
CHINA:
1. In what ways did European Industrial Revolution lead to 19 th C. European imperialism? (List 3
ways; pp 879 – 880)
2. What new technologies from the Industrial Revolution made European imperialism possible?
List 4 found on p 880)
3. How did the new “science” of 19 th century Europe support imperialism? (p 881)
4. Explain social, political and economic problems in China leading to the Taiping Rebellion?(p
883)
5. What was the culmination of China’s internal crisis by 1850? Why? (p. 883)
6. What did the revolutionary leaders of the Taiping Uprising insist on changing? (p. 884)
7. What finally destroyed and stopped the Taiping Uprising? (p. 884)
8. Explain Western domination over China during the 19 th C. leading up the end of the century?
(p 885-886)
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE:
9. In what three ways was Western interference in the Ottoman Empire similar to Western
interference in China? (p 889)
10. What political, technological and economic problems did the Ottoman Empire face that were
similar to the problems faced by China? (p 891)
11. Compare the outcomes of China and the Ottoman Empire by the twentieth century. (p. 894)

JAPAN – from TOKUGAWA Shogunate To MEIJI Rule:
12. Explain the role of the daimyo under the Tokagawa shogunate (1600-1850) (p. 895)
13. In what ways was Japan changing during the Tokagawa era? List 8 things. (pp. 895-896)
14. In what ways did the Japanese modernize under the Meiji restoration? List 8 things
(pp. 898-900)
Define each and explain their significance:
BRITISH IMPERIALISM:
1. Cecil Rhodes (p 879-880)
2. Imperialism (p 880)
3. Nationalism (p 880)
4. The Gatling Gun (p 880)
5. “noble savages” (p 881)
6. “John Chinaman” (p 881)
7. Jules Ferry and his “civilizing mission” (p
881)
8. Social Darwinism (p. 882)
CHINA:
9. Taiping Uprising (p 883 – 884)
10. Opium Wars (p 884 – 887)
11. Treaty of Nanjin of 1842 (p 886)
12. Unequal treaties (p 886 and 887)
13. Spheres of influence (p 886 and 887, see
map)
14. “self-strengthening” movement (p 888)
15. Boxer Rebellion of 1900
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE:
16. The “sick man of Europe”
17. “defensive modernization” in the Ottoman
Empire
18. the ulama (p 891)
19. the Janissaries (p 891)
20. The Tanzimat Reforms (p 892-893)
21. The Young Ottomans (p 893)
22. The Young Turks (p 893 – 894)
JAPAN: FROM TOKUGAWA
SHOGUNATE TO MEIJI RULE:
23. Shogun (p. 895)
24. Commodore Matthew Perry (p. 897)
25. The Meiji Restoration (p 897)
26. Constitution of 1889 (p 899)
27. zaibatsu (p 900)
28. Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1902 (p 901)
29. Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895) (p 901)
30. Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905 (p. 901)