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Africa
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Asia
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Environmental
Nguyen Dynasty ´ s construction projects in Southeast Asia caused problems with people due to hard work in building canals, roads, and palaces. -
Economic
Opium was smuggled into China, it used to be sold. Huge profits and the cravings of addicts led to
rapid increases in sales, from 4,500 chests a year to 10,000 a year. -
Political
After the war the dutch established a
particularly exploitive policy called the Culture System this caused Indonesian peasants to be forced to plant a fifth of their land for the dutch. -
Political
Since the British had mostly control of the sea they easily shut down key chinese
ports and forced the Chinese to negotiate with them. -
Social
As many as 30,000 Vietnamese Christians were killed because the king and his advisers believed that christianity would undermine confucian moral
values and the unity of the Vietnamese state. -
Social
By 1850 China, for centuries the world’s most populous country, had more
than 400 million people which was one of their largest problems. -
Environmental
Effects from population growing in china caused, farm sizes shrank, and forests
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Political
The United States decided to
force the Japanese to open to trade. Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Edo Bay and demanded diplomatic negotiations
with the emperor. -
Environmental
Because Japan’s land and population were so much
smaller than China’s, the Western powers never expected much from
Japan as a trading partner. -
Economic
Japan's meiji restoration marked a turning point, led to them to
pursuing a strong army, and a rich nation. -
Economic
The dominant modern
was losing its industrial leadership, as its share of
global manufacturing output dropped from 33 percent to just 14 percent. -
Social
Japan had been decentralized by the daimyo,
The power over the population was under the control of the daimyo. -
The Benefits and Detriments of British Rule
Stopped the female infanticide, gangs who harmed citizens,human sacrifice, and the slave trade was ended and the owning of slaves was forbidden. -
Environmental
Instead of steamships, small steamboats were used to travel back and forth along the coast, they could also carry goods up and down Africa’s great rivers. -
Political
Colonies became important for political and diplomatic reasons which caused others to consider them crucial to national security, military
power, and international prestige. -
Social
Places raised tariff barriers, abandoning their century-
long practice of free trade and laissez-faire capitalism. People were also unable to export their goods and faced excess production, market saturation, and high
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Economic
Manila became crucial for trades between Mexico and China. Spanish introduced land ownership which led to the rise of a local elite class in the Philippines.