 | Term | Definition |
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Mercantilism |
Colonies are Established for the good of the mother country |
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The Three G's |
God, Glory, Gold- Motivations for europeans taking colonies |
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Joint Stock Companies |
When merchants join together and sell shares of their companies |
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Monopoly |
A company controls all trading production |
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mercenaries |
Hired Soldiers |
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Sepoy Mutiny |
Mercenaries revolting against the british over a misunderstanding of ammunition greece |
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Viceroy |
The british administrator in india |
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Bamboo Curtain |
China's psycholical isolation from the rest of the world |
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Five regions of China |
Manchuria, Inner mongolia, Yinjiang, Tibet, China proper |
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Opium wars |
Dispute over the opium trade (british won easily) |
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Treaty of Nanjing |
Ends the Opium wars, British given trade ports, Hong kong |
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Extraterritoriality |
When foreiners commit crimes and then tried in their home countries |
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Taiping Rebellion |
Worse civil war in history, China became weak as a result |
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Boxer Rebellion |
Martial artists/ Terroists, Rebelled against forein occupation and easily defeated |
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Major chinese islands |
Hokkaido, honshu, Shikoko, Kyushu |
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Megalopis |
Mega city, 1 after another |
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Matthew C Perry |
4 black ships go over to china to encourage trade |
