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1700
Many migrants moved from one Asian country to another, but there was also a
growing presence of Europeans in Asia, a consequence of the increasing
integration of the world economy most of the lands that explorers like Cook
encountered were occupied by societies with chiefs, crop agriculture,
domestic animals such as chickens and pigs. Australia was first developed by Britain as a penal colony. -
china under pressure
In 1900 foreign troops marched into China’s capital to
protect foreign nationals, and more and more Chinese had come to think
that their government, society, and cultural values needed to be radically
changed. China refused to accept
foreign diplomats at its capital in Beijing, and the expansion of trade fell. As the population grew, farm size shrank, forests
were put to the plow, surplus labor suppressed wages, and conflicts over
rights to water and tenancy increased.