Memory AP World Ch. 19 Part 1Version en ligne AP World Ch. 19 Terms Part 1 par Paula Workman "the Sick Man of Europe" Tokugawa Shogunate Rebellion led by Chinese militia organizations (1898-1901) in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed. Informal Empire Western Europe's unkind nickname for the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a name based on the Ottoman 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. Ending in a Japanese victory, this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in East Asia and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1905. China's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West. Taiping Uprising Feudal lords of Japan who retained substantial autonomy under the Tokugawa shogunate and only lost their social preeminence in the Meiji restoration Group of would-be reformers in the mid-19th-century Ottoman Empire that included lower-level officials, military officers, and writers; they urged the extension of Westernizing reforms to the political system. Matthew Perry U.S. navy commodore who in 1852 presented the ultimatum that led Japan to open itself to more normal relations with the outside world. Russo-Japanese War Term commonly used to describe areas that were dominated by Western powers in the 19th century but that retained their own governments and a measure of independence, e.g., Latin America and China. Boxer Rebellion Young Ottomans Self-strengthening Movement massive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of China between 1850 and 1864; it was based on the millennium teachings of Hong Xiquan. Daimyo Rulers of Japan from 1600 to 1868.