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Extraterritoriality
laws of nation dont apply to foriengers
Tanzimat
Ottomans
army, legal, educational reforms. Inspiration from enlightenment, wanted to make regulations fit for europeans so they could lift capitulations and hain ottoman control
nanking treaty
ending opium wars
opened ports for british trade
opened door for western exploitation
taiping rebellion
China
led by alleged younger brother of jesus christ (Hong Xiuquang)
overthrow “foriegn” governemnt, enlightment ideas
hundred days reform
China
Stopped by emperess cixi
revolt against how weak government was
Ito Hirobumi↓
Mastermind of japanese constitutional system
Inspired by Biskarm, german
Tried to make an almost absolute monarch
Rules to replace futile government
Cocotei,
means national policy/identity
Indian rebellion of 1857/Sepoy Mutiny
Britain’s disrespectful of indian religions sparked rebellion
Indirect to direct imperialism, started to take money, ended by having direct rule of india
King leopold of belgium
congo
Set rubber plantations by using extreme violence
48 million people dying
Public turned on him, and belgium took over control of him
Rubber only export, valuable for wires, tires
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waitangi
new zealand like a colony
Opposition to british rule
Violent confrontations which started the british war
Ended wars by putting maori into rural communities
Alexander II
russia
liberating tzar
modernization reforms
incomplete
son reversed it all