Chapter 19

Trying to do something different with my blog instead of just summarizing it I'm going to start just writing down key points and definitions that I either find interesting or that I find useful.

Key Points:
  • Social Darwinism: The belief  that the fittest and best in terms of social would lead to the survival of their race and people.  Europeans and people who were ahead in comparison to most of the world thought this, which led to imperialism and European racism. 
  • Taiping Uprising:  Peasant rebellion in China that ruined the economy of China as the people revolted and they tried and cut out most of the contacts from the British empire. 
  • Opium Wars: these were wars between China and Britain that started after China got hooked on Opium and Britain wanted to keep exporting these to China because their economy was rising from it but China stopped it, took out some exports and prohibited it, the British took it offensively, and started wars against them.
  • Unequal Treaties: The treaties that followed the Opium wars that were not in China's favor but towards Britain and the Western power, because China had lost against them and their power was falling as well as the empire. 
  • Self-Strengthening movement: Movements in China that led to groups being formed in order get China back into the world and be within ties of everyone in terms of world power, occurring after the Opium Wars. 
  • Boxer Uprising: Peasant rebellion and other class rebellions to try to stop foreigners and others out of China so they can stop all the problems China is having. 
  • China, 1911: China soon collapse and fell, and everything was going bad for China, it had lost most of its territories and the problems and conflicts kept building up and up for China. 
  • Tanzimat: This was when the Ottoman Empire started changing from being ruled by a religious leader to bureaucracy.
  •  Informal Empires: When empires did not completely control other empires but had a huge control of it, such as trade, economy, environment, culture and aspects of life. 
  • Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905: Japanese and the Russians were fighting over for land in Asia, where no one really won but the Russians fell into a civil war and revolution in their own country. 

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