Memory AP World Ch. 19 Part 1Versión en línea AP World Ch. 19 Terms Part 1 por Paula Workman U.S. navy commodore who in 1852 presented the ultimatum that led Japan to open itself to more normal relations with the outside world. Rulers of Japan from 1600 to 1868. 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. Ending in a Japanese victory, this war established Japan as a formidable military competitor in East Asia and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1905. Young Ottomans China's program of internal reform in the 1860s and 1870s, based on vigorous application of Confucian principles and limited borrowing from the West. massive Chinese rebellion that devastated much of China between 1850 and 1864; it was based on the millennium teachings of Hong Xiquan. Self-strengthening Movement Rebellion led by Chinese militia organizations (1898-1901) in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed. Taiping Uprising Matthew Perry 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. Informal Empire Daimyo Russo-Japanese War Tokugawa Shogunate "the Sick Man of Europe" 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. Feudal lords of Japan who retained substantial autonomy under the Tokugawa shogunate and only lost their social preeminence in the Meiji restoration Boxer Rebellion