| A | B |
|---|
| Nurhaci | A Manchu leader |
| Banner Armies | Nurhaci’s armies |
| Qing | Last Chinese dynasty |
| Kangxi | A Confucian scholar and early Manchu ruler |
| Compradors | merchants of the import-export trade on China’s southern coast |
| Banditry | One of the sure signs of dynastic decline |
| Lin Zexu | A distinguished chinese official with orders to use whatever means necessary to stamp out the opium trade |
| Taiping Rebellion | A rebellion to overthrow the Qing dynasty and Confucian based scholar gentry |
| Hong Xiuquan | Mentally unstable, semi-christian leader of the taiping rebellion |
| Self-Strengthening Movement | A movement aimed at countering influence from the west |
| Cixi | Ultraconservative empress that defied westernizers |
| Boxer Rebellion | Aimed at expelling foreigners from china |
| Sun Yat-sen | a revolutionary who seized power |
| Queues | Braided ponytails |
| Puyi | Last emperor of china |
