HIST-UA 651 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lower Canada, Canada Act 1982, Report On The Affairs Of British North America
2 Sep 2016
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The meiji reformers wanted to replace the rigid feudal order with a completely new political and social system and to build a modern industrial economy. x. In their relentless race for raw materials, new markets, and christian converts, western industrial powers gobbled up southeast asia. By the 1890s, europeans controlled most of southeast asia. They: introduced modern technology expanded commerce and industry set up new enterprises to mine tin and harvest rubber brought in new crops of corn and cassava built harbors and railroads. These changes benefited europeans far more than the people of southeast asia. King mongkut, who ruled from 1851 to 1868, set siam on the road to modernization. Siam was forced to accept some unequal treaties but escaped becoming a european colony. Both britain and france saw the advantage of making siam a buffer, or neutral zone, between them. In the early 1900s, britain and france guaranteed siam its independence.
