FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP WORLD-UNIT 6 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP WORLD-UNIT 6 EXAM

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Question 1: Boxer Rebellion

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A Chinese secret society known as the Boxers embarked on a violent campaign to drive all foreigners from China. Several countries (including the United States) sent troops to halt the attacks.

Question 2: Admiral Matthew Perry

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U.S. naval officer who headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853-54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation.

Question 3: Taiping Rebellion

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a massive rebellion and civil war that was waged in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Han, Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Led to the deaths of over 20 million people.

Question 4: Young Ottomans

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a secret society established in 1865 by a group of Ottoman Turkish intellectuals who were dissatisfied with the Tanzimat reforms in the Ottoman Empire, which they believed did not go far enough

Question 5: Monroe Doctrine

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Warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. It said that the US would stay out of European affairs and that Europe should not interfere in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 6: Crimean War

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a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. The immediate cause of the war involved the rights of Christian minorities

Question 7: Sepoy Rebellion

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It was a major uprising of the Indian people against the British imperialists as Indian natives, enlisted in the British army, fought back against the brutal treatment they endured under the British.

Question 8: Opium Wars

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1839-1842- A series of wars between China and Britain. The wars would lead to the quick defeat of the Chinese navy by the superior (and modern) naval fleet of the British and further subjugation of the Chinese people by western powers.

Question 9: Maxim Guns

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The first automatic weapon.It was initially used to crush rebellions in colonized areas such as African nations. Western nations, such as the British, would use them to subjugate tribes and killed thousands in the process.

Question 10: Great Reforms

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These acts liberated roughly 40 percent of the population from bondage, created an independent judicial system, introduced self-governing councils in towns, transformed military service, strengthened banking, and granted more autonomy to universities.

Question 11: Tributary Empire

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When a powerful entity conquers a weaker entity and demands tribute in the form of food, goods, etc.

Question 12: Panama Canal

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(construction 1904-1914) cut through the Isthmus of Panama and would cut travel time between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans greatly as people no longer had to sail around the southern tip of South America.

Question 13: Treaty of Nanjing

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treaty that ended the first Opium War, the first of the unequal treaties between China and foreign imperialist powers. China paid the British an indemnity and ceded the territory of Hong Kong,

Question 14: Zemstvos

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An institution of local Russian government that built hospitals, schools, constructed roads, and engaged in tax collecting. The Zemstvo also helped peasants establish experimental farms; they lent money; and generally encouraged co-operative farming

Question 15: Queen Lili'uokalani

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the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893 by the United States.

Question 16: Self-strengthening movement

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a period of radical institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following the military disasters of the Opium Wars.

Question 17: Russo-Japanese War

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was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. It resulted in a loss for Russia and further Japanese influence in Asia.

Question 18: Nicholas II

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the last Emperor of Russia. He was assassinated in 1918. He was highly unpopular due to his indifference to the peasant plight and Russia's entrance into WWI, a fight most Russians felt unnecessary and costly.

Question 19: Scientific Racism

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sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism (racial discrimination), racial inferiority, or racial superiority.

Question 20: Russo-Japanese War

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fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The Japanese won the war shocking the world as people saw Russia as a major power.

Question 21: Bloody Sunday

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massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905

Question 22: Duma

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Russian legislative assembly created in 1905 by Nicholas II as a means of appeasing an angry peasant population. It was largely ineffective due to conflict with the tsar as well as the boyar class.

Question 23: French Indochina

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the three countries of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia formerly associated with France, first within its empire and later within the French Union.

Question 24: Livingstone and Stanley

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Stanley was a Welsh-American reporter who went into the heart of Africa in search of missionary and explorer David Livingstone. After a long and arduous journey, he found him and his first words, "Dr.Livingstone, I presume?" became immortalized.