UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tokugawa Shogunate, Industrial Revolution, Expansionism

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Undergraduate College
• Course: UGC 112
• Professor: Michelle Benson

Document Summary

The second industrial revolution concentrated and reinforced economic power for these industrializing nations. New technologies in warfare and transportation increased european global dominance and economic integration: steam-powered gunboats and breech-loading rifles opened new territories for conquest and trade. Capacity: populaion, railroads facilitated the movement of peoples and goods to coastal ports, the suez canal allowed for more efficient travel between europe and asia, telegraph cable and technology created quicker communication. Pressures of expansion in japan, russia, and china. Japan, russia, and china provide three contrasting models of expansion and conquest in. The meji restoration strove to restore japan through reforms and propaganda including. A single government/ political community with linguistic and: expansionism and conflict with neighbors ethnic homogeneity and superiority. Expansion offered more market, raw materials, and a chance to assert the. Which colonies was associated with which country? country"s superiority and greatness. In1872, the japanese conquered the ry ky s, or the okinawans.