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| What country did the East Indies lie south of? |
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| Where was the island of Sumatra? |
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| What other country wanted Sumatra? |
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| What did the Sumatra Treaty allow the Dutch to do? |
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| It allowed the Dutch to take over Acheh. |
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| The Dutch invaded Acheh with three thousand men. |
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| a war fought from hiding, rather than between organized armies on a regular battlefield. |
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| How many years did the war drag on? |
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| an official messenger from one country to another |
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| What did Nicholas I mean by "the sick man"? |
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| He was talking about the Ottoman Empire. |
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| Why did Nicholas I call the Ottoman Turks "sick"? |
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| The empire was growing weaker and poorer. |
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| What did the Russians want the British to help them do? |
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| They wanted them to help conquer the Ottoman Turks. |
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| List two things that were weakening the Ottoman Empire. |
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| The sultans had spent too much money and they were borrowing money to pay their soldiers. |
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| What part of his empire did Abdul Aziz have trouble with? |
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| What two things did the Young Bulgarians want for their country? |
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| They wanted their country to be free of the Turks and they wanted Bulgaria to have a modern constitution. |
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| What happened to Bulgarian revolutionaries in April, 1876? |
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| They tried to rebel against the Turks, but almost 12 thousand were killed. |
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| What happened to Abdul Aziz after the April Uprising? |
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| He was forced to give up the throne and 4 days later he died. |
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| How did Abdulhamid II try to improve the Ottoman Empire? |
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| He announced that the empire would have a constitution and an assembly. |
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| What excuse did the Russian czar give for invading Ottoman land? |
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| The czar said that Muslim Turks had killed Bulgarian Christians and that Russian Christians had to help protect the Bulgarians. |
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| Who won the war between Russia and the Ottomans? |
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