HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Second Opium War, Canton System, Italian Unification
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Prussia had become a great power in the 1700s. It will be back: they will fight a series of wars which in the 1860s will culminate into a german power in. German unification: wars in 1860s lead to italian unification, the us will fight the civil war causing the us to emerge even stronger than before, 1868 japan goes under the meiji restoration. Beginning of restoration that will change japan externally and internally. Join ir as a colonial power and an immense power: 1860s is a period of state making and state power, causes of these changes are both external and internal. How it would shape china and japan. 4 major events: 1839-1842 first opium war in china, 1853-(cid:1009)(cid:1008) (cid:862)opening(cid:863) of japan, 1856-60 second opium war, 1868 meiji restoration in japan. After the american revolution, americans gain independence, british left na, the british colonial interests shift to asia.
