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17) What caused the 1908 coup in the
Ottoman Empire?
1) List the weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire
in the 18th century
18) Who challenged the Ottomans for control of Libya
during WW I?
2) What was the Muslim economy like in the
early 18th century?
19)What was the relationship between the Young Turks
and the Arabs after the coup of 1908?
3) Which European power took Muslim
territories in the early 18th century?
20) Whose invasion of Egypt in 1798 signaled the
beginning of Europe’s colonization of the Islamic
heartland?
4) In the later 1700s what power became the
major threat to Ottoman survival?
21) What Islamic group was deposed by this invasion?
5) What was the first Balkan region to achieve
independence from the Ottoman Empire?
22) What person had established dominance over Egypt
by 1801?
6) By what decade had the Ottoman’s been
driven from virtually all of the Balkans?
23) List the reforms introduced to Egypt after 1801
7) What European nation supported the
Ottoman Empire to keep a balance of power in
the Mediterranean?
8) What were Sultan Selim IIIs reforms? What
was the result of these reforms?
24) Why could Muhammad Ali not overthrow the
Ottoman Empire?
25)Which reforms of Muhammad Ali failed? Why?
26) Who were the Ayan?
27) Who were the Khedives?
9) What Ottoman Sultan eliminated the
influence of the Janissary corp?
10) What were the reforms of Mahmud II?
What was the result of these reforms?
11) What were the Tanzimat reforms? What
was the result of these reforms?
12) What happened in 1876 that was
associated with the Tanzimat reforms?
13) How did the Tanzimat reforms relate to
women?
14) How does Abdul Hamid relate to the
Tanzimat reforms?
15) In what ways did Abdul Hamid press for
Westernization?
16) What group overthrew the Ottoman
Sultanate in 1908?
28) What motivated Europeans to lend money to
Muhammad Ali’s successors?
29) What happened in Egypt in 1882 that allowed
Britain to become politically involved in the country?
30) What was the center of Egyptian administration in
the Sudan?
31) Why did Achmad claim leadership of Sudanic
resistance to Egyptian rule?
32) Who was Mahdi? Who was Khalifa Abdallahi?
33) Who was Nurhaci? What did he do?
34) What did the Manchu dynasty of China call itself?
35) How did the Manchus implement the imperial
bureaucracy?
36) In what areas did the Manchus attempt reform?
37) Why did Manchu reforms fail?
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38) Who were the compradors? How did they
rise in influence?
39) What were all of the causes of Qing
decline in the early 19th century?
40) How large was the Chinese population in
1850?
41) Describe the relationship between opium,
economics, and colonialism in China
42) Who was Lin Zexu? What was his role in
the 1830s?
43) What was the outcome of the opium war?
44) Describe the Taiping Rebellion. What
caused it? What was the outcome?
45) How did the Manchus respond to external
pressure by the end of the 19th century?
46) When was the last Chinese emperor
deposed?
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19) Who was Count Witte? What did he do?
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20) What was the relationship between Russian
industry and foreign capital by 1900?
1) How did Russia and Japan defy the
common pattern of Western domination?
2) Characterize Russia’s and Japan’s
development economically and militarily by
the early 20th century
3) How did Russia and Japan approach the
west differently?
21) Rank Russian industrialization by 1900
22) What local advantages did Russia have in terms of
industrialization?
23) List the causes of Russian unrest during the second
half of the 19th century
24) What was the role of the Russian intelligentsia?
4) How were Russia and Japan similar in
terms of industrialization prior to 1914?
25) Who were the anarchists? What did they want?
How did they operate to achieve their goals?
5) What caused Russia to fear too much
westernization?
26) What were the characteristics of Russian Marxism?
6) What were the characteristics of the Holy
Alliance?
27) Who were the Bolsheviks? How did they relate to
Lenin’s ideas?
7) What was the Decembrist ring? What did
they do in 1825?
28) What contributed to working class radicalism in
Russia in the late 19th century?
8) How did Russia avoid revolutions in the
1830s and in 1848?
29) Failure in what war led to the Russian revolution of
1905?
9) Describe Russian territorial expansion
30) What happened in the revolution of 1905?
10)Describe the Russian economy at the
beginning of the 19th century
31) What reforms stemmed from the revolution of 1905?
What was the role of the liberals?
11) How does the Crimean war relate to
Russia’s widening gap with the west?
32) Who was Stolypin?
12) Why did the west win the Crimean war?
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13) What czar started reforms in the 19
century? What were those reforms?
14) In what ways was serfdom reformed?
33) What was the Duma?
34) Who were the Kulaks? What did they achieve after
1905?
35) Who were the great 19th century Russian novelists?
15) When were serfs emancipated?
36) How did the Tokugawa Shogunate deal with a
central bureaucracy and regional diamyos?
16) What came with serf emancipation?
37) Describe Tokugawa intellectual and cultural life
17) What were Russian reforms in the 1860s
and 1870s?
38) What was the Dutch studies group? What did they
advocate?
18) What was the first step toward
industrialization in Russia?
39) Who forced the opening of Japan in 1853?
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40) When did Mutsuhito take the throne?
What did he implement?
41) What advantages did Japan have over
China in terms of industrialization?
42) What were the political reforms of the
Meji era?
45) What were zaibatsus?
46) How did imports and exports impact Japans
industrialization?
47) What did the Japanese adopt culturally from the
west?
48) How did Shinto impact industrialization in Japan?
43) How did these reforms compare with
those of Russia?
44) How was Japanese and Russian
industrialization similar and different?
49) What were the social stresses associated with
Japanese industrialization?