| A | B |
| Opium Wars | (1839-1842); (1856-1860) England and other European powers fought to control China's profitable trade by forcing the Chinese to accept Opium as an import |
| Opium | a terrible drug dubbed illegal by the Chinese |
| Boxer Rebellion | an attempt to rid China of all foreign influences |
| Dr. Sun Yat Sen | leader of Chinese nationalist movement of the 1900s |
| nationalism | patriotic devotion to one's own country which led to the breakup of empires, wars, and movements for independence and unification |
| import | items brought legally into a country |
| Sepoy Mutiny | a rebellion in India against European colonialism; similar to the Boxer Rebellion |
| China | highly advanced civilization that made great inventions such as gunpowder developed cultural achievements such as the Civil Service System, and used the belief system as the basis for social order |