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The Nguyen Dynasty gets power
he dynasty came into power during 1802 and it ended the 30 year peasant wars and the rebellions.This was also the first the Vietnamese dynasty that ruled the whole country. -
Muhammad Ali
1811 is when Muhammad starts improving Egypt with better economy,military and architecture, he made new industries and even improved trade. Ali created a strong army by having them do new training programs and Muhammad helped educations by making schools and universities because he thought that education for the new generation was important. -
Education in English for India
in 1814 Britain actually supported for Indians to start having an education in the English language. Britain also introduced things such as science to schools so Indians were learning the European way -
java war
while the dutch were taking over east India company the dutch took the companies control over java and so it became an official state. The people from java looked at the dutch company for things like protection but the dutch government just abused the power they had over java -
opium war
This war started because china wanted to stop the illegal trade of opium which had led lots of Chinese citizens to have an opium addiction the west was the main source for opium and the British actually started this war by attacking the Chinese port cities first -
Chinese stopping infants from dying as much
poor families were getting rid of their new born's because they couldn't afford to have them but You Zhi believed that poor people just needed a helping hand because of their circumstances but he also thought that the families should keep the kids instead of just giving up -
the rebellion in Taiping
China had an issue with overpopulation and the sizes of farms shrunk and they were killing off female newborns because they couldn't afford it and male babies were seem as better than the daughters because of this rebellion broke out and about 20 million people lost their lives during it. -
rise of exports for palm oil
Because there was a decline in the slave trade made the want for palm oil to rise but the Europeans saw this as a business opportunity they supported the rise of palm oil -
the Indian national congress
educated indians made a group called the indian national congress and it was basically about giving other indians more opportunities and making the indian military better -
japan and imperial power
during 1860 japan became and imperial power japan had power over Taiwan and Korean colonies which led them to fight china and Russia because they wanted Korea to be left alone -
restoration of meji
the meji restoration was termination of the Japanese feudal government.The reason behind that was because people wanted someone good too to rule japan -
great revolt
the great revolt included indian rebels that were against the idea of the british having control over india the british were doing lot's wrong but even though india pulled out their troops britain just had a stricter rule -
Indian civil service
The Indian Civil service was an administration that managed the Indian government and to get in indians would have to take a test that you could only take in england and since many couldnt go only one of the members from the service was indian and this was the first time indians had a say in their government even thought it was a rigged -
The self strengthening movement
after losing the opium war china started introducing western techonolgy into their army and bring better education to china this would help them prevent a loss like the opium war -
the long depression
Unable to export their goods and faced with excess production, market saturation, and high
unemployment, Britain, the other European powers, and the United State turned to imperial expansion, seeking African and Asian colonies to sell their products and acquire cheap raw materials. -
industrialization of japan
Since japan wanted to make their military stronger they started industrializing and Japanese people had to study abroad for science and engineering so they can get the latest technology -
The Berlin conference
this was a meeting that every European leader had to attend in order to see how they were going to colonize Africa without getting in each others way while doing it and in these meetings the agreed to bring Christianity and civilization -
popularity of rubber
because of the invention of rubber tires rubber exploded in popularity and King Leopold II took full advantage of the fact that their county had rubber everywhere he even forced people to mine rubber for him -
the united states and spain war
in Cuba a war between the united states and Spain started and that happened because united states supported the fact that Filipinos and Cuba wasn't in agreement with Cuba's harsh rule Filipinos wanted to start a war to gain independence but the U.S refused and so they also had to deal with Filipino rebels -
U.S taking the Philippines
The the U.S took the Philippines it impacted them so much that even the language used changed. the U.S was considered an imperial power in Asia when this happened. -
Russo-Japanese war
Japan and Russia got into a war over east Asia expansion.Japan ended up wining and this was the first time An Asian power defeated one of Europeans power -
The 1911 revolution
the 1911 revolution started because Chinese were studding abroad and they started learning western idea this led to Sun Yatsen starting a revolution that brought down the Chinese monarchy and replaced it with the republic -
"White man's burden" poem
In 1899 Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem and it made European men start believing that their responsibility is to start civilization and improve the economy of countries that weren't a good as Europe