HIS103Y1 Lecture 15: Week 8 Notes - Lectures 15 and 16
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International state system > how it expanded to cover the world. Europe and asia: to go and nd goods that were unavailable in europe, sell in europe and make money from, cotton, silk, spices, tea, coffee. Don"t organize to build an empire, controlling territory: these companies (british east indian company) become a key player in making. China: why we haven"t talked about china yet, why it doesn"t play a part in the rst half of the course. Manchu tribes rode into china > qing dynasty: extremely strong, well-governed, militarily powerful chinese empire. Europeans (barbarians) had the audacity to have relations with china as if it were another european state. Chinese rejection of the european state system. Unintentional: unintentional expansion of the state system to north america. Monday, october 31, 2016: new state in the state system but it cannot be called a european state. China, india > accidental expansion in india, purposeful attempt in china.
