China Dynasties

By rosswamsley16
  • Period: 100 to

    China dynasties

  • Great Britain and China

    Great Britain and China
    • 1793 British ambassador kneeled on only one knee rather than the full kowtow
    • Supported converting Chinese to western ways
    • Chiense didn’t want British trade goods and they attempted to control British trade in China
    • Opium Wars
    o First Opium War(1839-1842) o Second Opium War(1856-1860)
    • Unfair trade between Chinese and Britain
    o Treaty of Nanking

  • Rebellions

    Rebellions
    Taiping Rebellion
    • Hoped to give China back to its people
    • Over a million dead, crushed by Qing with help of British and French military forces
    Boxer Rebellion
    • Began when an anti-foreign and anti-Christian
    • From 1900-1901
    Sun Yat-Sen
    • Chinese revolutionary, and eventually the first president of the Republic of China