In 1346 European traders began to hear reports about earthquakes‚ floods‚ locusts‚ famine‚ and plague in faraway China. They knew very little then that the plague they were hearing about would follow the same trade routes to the Middle East‚ North Africa‚ and Europe that they themselves used. (doc. 1) In five short years‚ the plague killed between 25 and 45% of the populations it encountered. (doc 2) So how different were the Christian and Muslim responses? In 1348 Christianity and Islam came face
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Protests of Tibet against the republic of China have occurred early as the 1950s. Tibet has once been an independent nation‚ until it was incorporated into the Mongol Empire in 1246 and was under Yuan Dynasty until the 1350s. In 1720‚ the Qing Dynasty Army entered Tibet and defeated the invading forces of Dzungar Khanate; thus starting the Qing rule of Tibet. During the Qing rule of Tibet‚ bad blood between Chinese and Tibet grew with the assassination of the Tibet prince‚ Gyurme Namgyal by two
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a professor and the current department chair of the history department at the Southeastern Oklahoma State University. The author’s primary thesis revolves the external and internal politics that influenced England’s declaration of war prior to the Opium Crisis. When constructing the source‚ the author used a wide arrange of materials ranging from English-Argentinian treaties‚ to personal letters from prominent English officials within China. His approach in the source primarily revolves around the
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Chapter 26 The West and The World "Old Imperialism" occurred between the 16th and 18th centuries; European powers did not usually acquire territory in Africa and Asia but rather built a series of trading stations; the New World was the exception--many countries established colonies in the Americas; many Europeans also emigrated from their homelands "New Imperialism" Began in 1880s in Africa‚ earlier in Asia; in 1800 Europeans controlled about 7% of the world’s territory--by 1914 they controlled
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goods continued to be extremely popular in Europe. The Opium War and the “Opening” of China Opium‚ however‚ changed everything. In greater and greater numbers‚ Chinese accustomed to tobacco began to use opium brought by Europeans. Although the Qing court banned the drug‚ usage spread. Seeking to trade opium for tea‚ the East India Company induced Indian peasants to raise opium‚ which could then be shipped to China. Enormous quantities of opium made their way to China‚ swelled by the number of merchants
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did not. This led to hostility between China and the European Countries Opium Wars Inflexible‚ close-minded (about commerce with Europe) Bad harvests‚ warfare‚ rebellions‚ overpopulation‚ economic disasters‚ and foreign imperialism contributed to the dynasty’s collapse. Manchu Dynasty was not able to control or adjust and get an efficient solution to China´s just arisen problems Opium Wars There was a high demand for China’s tea ceramics‚ and silks in Great Britain
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first Opium War in 1839 until the 1940’s and the rise of the Communist Party‚ forced Western ideas into China and caused doubts of and the eventual fall of the Middle Kingdom. Many factors of the Century of Humiliation‚ ranging between the Taiping Rebellion‚ the ‘rice bowl’ mentality of the Chinese in the face of reform‚ and World War 1 influenced the cultural shifts and the humiliation of China‚ but the most significant of the contributing events of the Century of Humiliation was the Opium Wars
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the British and the French. 2. During the Second Opium War in 1860‚ the allegiance of European imperialist occupied the Chinese capital of Peking (Beijing). The Old Summer Palace‚ the Qing Chinese equivalent of a national museum‚ was looted and subsequently burnt down. 3. British started selling Opium to the Chinese to make a profit and eventually try to gain power over them by getting the Chinese addicted. This eventually leads to the Opium War. B- India 1. During the 1700s‚ a joint-stock
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any sense‚ when the British finally found the one item the Chinese would buy was opium. A drug which was once used for medicinal purposes was now being used in a recreational manner. Use of the drug created addictions among many people‚ having to feed their addictions by selling their children to receive the
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because of the dynastic cycle. Government was less efficient‚ intellectual life declined‚ and there was a lot of popular unrest. Western influence caused the decline to happen more abruptly. An example of this was the Opium Wars. British merchants began smuggling Opium into China. The opium itself contributed to the fall because some leaders and officials were addicted to it‚ which led to incapable rulers. When China attempted to stop this they ended up in a War with Great Britain and eventually other
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