social Darwinism
Like Darwinism but more of the belief of survival of the fittest.
Taiping Uprising
A huge chinese rebellion that devastated China during the 1850's.
Opium Wars
A war that started between the trade between China and Europe between Opium.
unequal treaties
treaties between the Western and China that mostly favored the Western after the Opium Wars.
self-strengthening movement
An movement by the Ottoman empire to counter the West
Boxer uprising
Where a bunch of boxers killed a lot of foreigners.
China, 1911
The time where Imperial China collapsed./
"the sick man of Europe"
basically the Ottoman empire because they kept revolting against Europe.
Tanzimat
Restructing the reforms made by the Ottoman Empire and all that stuff.
Young Ottomans
Young educated Ottomans that are educated on the West that sees the Ottoman Empire losing ground.
Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
An Ottoman sultan the quickly accepted a reform but surprisingly rejected it afterwards.
Young Turks
People who wanted to bring modernization and revolution.
informal empires
An informal rule
Tokugawa Japan
where the shogun took control over Japan.
Meiji restioration
Where after ther Ophium wars Japan is finally restored from the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Japan vs Russia wars.