Chapter 15 World History Notes
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What happened during the Opium war? | The brits were paying for tea in silver and were losing money and so they started importing opium and selling it to Chinese, who got mad because their citizens were getting high on drugs so they fought them |
| Why did the Quing Dynasty collapse | due to external pressures from west and internal unrest, corruption, population growth, and food shortages |
| Where did the Brits open a port | Hong Kong |
| What are the areas where imperial powers had exclusive trading rights, for Britain France Germany Russia and Japan | Spheres of Influence |
| Gave all countries more equal access to trade with China | Open Door Policy |
| What happened when they didn't like western cultural and killed foreign missionaries and Chinese Catholics, was put down by a coalition of imperial forces | Boxer Rebellion |
| Who was the first westerner to enter Japan and led to the opening of several ports for Japan | Commodore Matthew Perry |
| This transformed Japan into a modern industrial nation | Meiji Restoration |
| How was Japan a industrial nation? | mandatory army, universal education, great freedom for women, western clothes, dances, sports, |
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