HIST115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Himalayas, Canker, Hearth Tax
20 Nov 2016
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Until this point the unit has focused on the process by which europeans acted and changed the circumstances for themselves and people who lived in the east. This lecture will focus on the reactions of those people. New slide: the impact of european colonial and commercial. Shows a picture of some east india company sepoy soldiers, and details some types of resistance : There were several ways in which asians tried to resist europeans, some of which have been looked at already: punishment and exclusion including severe restrictions on trade. The japanese state after the rise of the tokugawa shogunate decided not to deal with the portuguese any longer, it was only going to deal with the. Dutch and going to do so on their terms. They gave them only restricted access, giving them the benefits of trading with the west, but the influence the west could have was limited, and their ability to destabilise the tokugawa regime tightly controlled.
