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How did opium affect China in the nineteenth century?

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Compare and contrast the responses to Western culture in China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan in the nineteenth century.

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What was the significance of the opium trade in China in the nineteenth century?


A) It increased the tax revenue collected by China.
B) It resulted in a large flow of silver into China.
C) It reversed the trade imbalance in favor of Britain.
D) It lowered unemployment rates in rural China.

E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

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The many rules and regulations issued by the Tokugawa shogunate reflect its goal to


A) freeze Japanese society in the interests of stability.
B) control the process of borrowing from Western culture.
C) encourage capitalism and industrialization in Japan.
D) play the Western powers against one another.

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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In what ways did the reforms implemented in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century transform the Ottoman Empire from an Islamic to a secular state?

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Which of the following reflects the combination of foreign and Japanese elements characteristic of Meiji reforms in the late nineteenth century?


A) "Civilization and Enlightenment"
B) Samuel Smiles's Self-Help
C) The Meiji constitution
D) The state cult of Shinto

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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Which of the following statements in Source 19.3 in the textbook reflects the Chinese female revolutionary Qiu Jin's argument for a greater role for women in public life?


A) "All of you are aware that we are about to lose our country. Men can scarcely protect themselves. How can we rely on them? We must revitalize ourselves. "
B) "Some men go as far as killing baby girls while most hold the opinion that 'girls are eventually someone else's property' and treat them with coldness and disdain."
C) "It seems clear now that it was we women who abandoned our responsibilities to ourselves and felt content to let men do everything for us."
D) "When Heaven created people it never intended such injustice because if the world is without women, how can men be born?"

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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Which of the following characterizes Japanese colonial policies in Taiwan and Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?


A) Japanese colonialism was less harsh and exploitative than European colonialism.
B) Japanese colonialism matched or exceeded the brutality of European colonialism.
C) The Japanese granted equal rights and protections to colonial subjects.
D) The Japanese relinquished their colonies once the colonies had industrialized.

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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Which of the following was an antiforeign movement that erupted in northern China at the turn of the twentieth century and seriously weakened the Qing dynasty?


A) The self-strengthening movement
B) The Hundred Days of Reform
C) The Boxer Uprising
D) The Taiping Uprising

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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What did the unequal treaties imposed on China and Japan by Western powers have in common with the capitulations between the Ottoman Empire and European states?

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How were women's lives affected by the upheavals of the nineteenth century in China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan?

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In the nineteenth century, how did China's confrontation with Britain compare to Japan's confrontation with the United States?

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What did the Young Turks advocate?


A) A religious war against the West
B) A militantly secular Turkish state
C) A jihad against all non-Muslims
D) A regime based on Wahhabi principles

E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Massive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of the country between 1850 and 1864; it was based on the millenarian teachings of Hong Xiuquan.


A) Taiping Uprising
B) Opium Wars
C) Commissioner Lin
D) unequal treaties
E) self-strengthening movement
F) Boxer Uprising
G) Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H) "the sick man of Europe"
I) Tanzimat
J) Young Ottomans
K) Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L) Young Turks
M) informal empires
N) Battle of Adowa
O) Tokugawa Japan
P) Meiji Restoration
Q) Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

R) A) and B)
S) A) and H)

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The capitulations between European countries and the Ottoman Empire were similar to the


A) spheres of influence in Japan.
B) Meiji Restoration in Japan.
C) unequal treaties between European countries and China.
D) defensive modernization programs in China and Japan.

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Term commonly used to describe areas that were dominated by Western powers in the nineteenth century but that retained their own governments and a measure of independence, for example, Latin America and China.


A) Taiping Uprising
B) Opium Wars
C) Commissioner Lin
D) unequal treaties
E) self-strengthening movement
F) Boxer Uprising
G) Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H) "the sick man of Europe"
I) Tanzimat
J) Young Ottomans
K) Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L) Young Turks
M) informal empires
N) Battle of Adowa
O) Tokugawa Japan
P) Meiji Restoration
Q) Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

R) J) and K)
S) C) and H)

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Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a name based on the sultans' inability to prevent Western takeover of many regions and to deal with internal problems; it fails to recognize serious reform efforts in the Ottoman state during this period.


A) Taiping Uprising
B) Opium Wars
C) Commissioner Lin
D) unequal treaties
E) self-strengthening movement
F) Boxer Uprising
G) Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H) "the sick man of Europe"
I) Tanzimat
J) Young Ottomans
K) Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L) Young Turks
M) informal empires
N) Battle of Adowa
O) Tokugawa Japan
P) Meiji Restoration
Q) Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

R) D) and Q)
S) J) and N)

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Which of the following reflects a policy proposed during the Hundred Days of Reform in 1898 (Source 19.2) ?


A) "For the court to use poetry, rhyme-prose, and fine script as the criteria for passing or failing the examinations for men of ability . . . ."
B) ". . . an independent branch expressly responsible for civil service examinations."
C) ". . . [W]e must establish elementary and high schools, colleges and universities, in accordance with those of foreign countries. . . ."
D) ". . . to create a constitutional democratic political system . . . ."

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Which of the following reflects how Japanese society was changing during the Tokugawa era?


A) The participation of samurai in commerce
B) The maintenance of a residence in Edo by daimyo
C) The creation of a national army loyal to the shogun
D) The autonomy enjoyed by daimyo over their domains

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Royal official (1785-1850) charged with ending the opium trade in Canton, his concerted efforts to seize and destroy opium imports provoked the Opium Wars.


A) Taiping Uprising
B) Opium Wars
C) Commissioner Lin
D) unequal treaties
E) self-strengthening movement
F) Boxer Uprising
G) Chinese revolution of 1911-1912
H) "the sick man of Europe"
I) Tanzimat
J) Young Ottomans
K) Sultan Abd al-Hamid II
L) Young Turks
M) informal empires
N) Battle of Adowa
O) Tokugawa Japan
P) Meiji Restoration
Q) Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

R) A) and N)
S) C) and M)

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