1830s British free trade policy unleashed a flood of opium in China‚ which threatened China’s _______________ _______________ ____ _____________. 4. Commissioner Lin Zexu drafted a response that contained a memorable threat to cut off trade in “Rhubarb‚ ________ _______ _________… all valuable products of ours‚ without which foreigners could not live.” 5. So the Chinese made like ________ _____________‚ confiscating a bunch of British opium and chucking it into the ________. 6. The Treaty of Nanjing
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http://www.presidentprofiles.com/index.html Seven Years War 1756-63 British and France over territory‚ in India for trade‚ British won both financial crisis. taxation Road to Revolution 1756-63: Seven Years War 1763: “Proclamation Line” 1765: Quartering Act and Stamp Act 1770: Boston Massacre 1773: Tea Act and Boston Tea Party 1774: “Intolerable Acts” 1774: First Continental Congress 1776 July 4: Declaration of Independence Treaty of Paris‚ 1783 Britain recognizes
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of Imperialism: Thesis: During the eighteenth century the Ottoman Empire lost much of its power to provincial governors‚ escalating many new encounters of reform. To justify or deny such climatic choices of reform called for a time of war. Following times of war were times of recovery; however‚ some empires could not withhold such responsibilities and fell through the cracks of their own broken establishment. The Ottoman Empire: In 1798‚ Napoleon invaded Egypt and defeated the Mamluk forces he
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Throughout the course of the first half of the semester we have taken a broad scope of the major aspects of the phenomena that has been the recent history of China. When studying Modern China a common thread of ethical‚ cultural‚ religious‚ political‚ social‚ and economic aspects can be analyzed in relationship to Confucianism and its affect on international relations. These aspects show that historically (particularly the nineteenth century) China initially resisted the acceptance of Western influence
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Before the Opium Wars‚ the Chinese’s thinking weren’t that accurate. They had beliefs like Earth was a square‚ and heaven was round. But‚ now they realized their misunderstanding. This was a broad‚ long-term impact‚ because the Chinese know for a fact about their understanding
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world. The impacts extended to all corners of the world including China‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ and Japan and the effects were very prevalent. The impact of imperialism on China included the creation of unequal treaties‚ the population’s introduction to opium‚ China’s power shift‚ and the beginnings of manufacturing. In the Ottoman Empire‚ imperialism also caused unequal treaties‚ pushed the people of the empire to reform‚ shifted the power‚ and caused the empire to retreat to defensive modernizing. Finally
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the Opium wars‚ where in 1839 the British cut off China’s coast blockading them to their homelands. Consequently‚ the trade deficit destroyed China’s economy by opium smugglers driving silver out of the economy by smuggling the addicting drug into China. This eventually led to the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842‚ where five ports became unrestricted to foreign trade and gave the rights of Hong Kong up. Thus directly started the Sino-Japanese War‚ where in 1894 China and Japan battled. This war furthered
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economically China suffered and Japan prospered‚ Japanese agricultural productivity increased while China’s did not‚ and China only accepted a small amount of goods while Japan accepted a wide range of goods- and political interaction - China went to war but Japan did not‚ Japan adopted western learning styles but China did not‚ and Japan heavily increased taxes on their people after 1890‚ while China did not -but had very comparable geographic traits – both had ocean borders – Japan was completely
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rebellion‚ Hung Xiuquan‚ the leader of the Taiping Rebellion‚ believed that according to Confucius law‚ it was his right to overthrow the Qing emporer who had lost the Mandate of Heaven due to over population and the loss to the British during the Opium war. Hung Xiuquan promoted sexual equality. He wanted to abolish foot binding and appointed of women as administrators and officers in the Taiping army to fight against the Qings. He also believed in the abolishment of the private ownership of land and
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The Opium Tragedy Since the US invasion of Afghanistan the opium output in the region has increased over five thousand percent. The mass production of opium began with the US backed overthrow of the secular government in Afghanistan and escalated expeditiously with the ensuing civil war. Before this the Taliban had banned the use of narcotics and kept poppy cultivation low. But the Taliban required military funding for the conflicts and what better way is there to obtain billions of dollars than
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