Lecture 11 Flashcards
What caused an uneasy relationship between China and Briatin?
Cultural and diplomatic blunders by the British
What powerful drug did the Chinese try to stop the trade of?
Opium
What trade in China could lead to your death?
Trading opium
What did the first Opium war lead to?
The treaty of Nanjing, the end of the Cohong monopoly, allowed British access to major ports, gave Britain Hong Kong, All brits immune to Chinese law.
What was the Cohong monopoly?
Select group of companies that were officially approved to engage in all foreign trade.
Who led the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
Hong Xiuquan
What does Taiping mean?
Great peace
What aided the Taiping rebellion?
Several natural disasters.
Who launched the second opium war?
Britain and France
Who was the actual power behind several emperors of China?
Empress Dowager Cixi
What did the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists do?
Initiated the Boxer Rebellion, performed rituals that they thought would make them impervious to bullets, they were not.
Empress Dowager Cixi died in 1908… she named who emperor? Also what age is he?
Puyi, at age 3
What did Sun Yixian do? what are some of his names? and what did he stand for?
Took Puyi down with a Rebellion, his names are: Sun Yatsen and Sun Zhongshan. he stood for rejecting western imperialism, democracy in the form of a parliamentary government, the “Peoples Welfare” which was to combine tax reform with social welfare.
How many times was Puyi emperor?
He was emperor of China twice, also was the last emperor twice.
What company basically ruled India for a while until a rebellion?
The British East India Co. or EIC
The Sepoy Rebellion
The Sepoy were Indian soldiers erving the British, mostly made up of Hindu and Muslim soldiers. This rebellion was aided by carefully-placed rumors that new British rifle bullets were coated with animal grease. They were in fact coated with mineral oil.
In 1858 the rule of India was transferred from WHO to WHO?
From EIC to the British crown - Queen Victoria, “Empress of India”
What is the beginning of the period known as the “Raj” mean?
Official British rule in India
What is the Indian Identity?
Known as Indian indigenous technology, and philosophical and legal arguments made by British-educated Indian leaders.
What did the meeting with U.S. fleet under Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853-1854 make the Japanese do?
Japan opened trade with the west, they were being kinda threatened because of how advanced american technology was to them. This also made them start to industrialize.
What happened with the Sino-Japanese war?
Japan won a war with against China, and took Manchuria, but had to give it back because of intervention from Europe who took the chance to establish their own presence in China.
What happened with the Russo-Japanese War?
Japanese army and navy overwhelmingly defeated Russian military in both land and sea battles. The war was triggered over a Korea dispute. Japan showed western nations that Asian countries could compete with and defeat European nations.
