GEOG 1504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bataan Death March, Consumer Electronics, Yasukuni Shrine
11 Apr 2016
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1868, ater emperor meiji, 200 years of isolaion, then opened up trade. 1798 napoleon invaded egypt, brits taking india, dutch taking southeast asia. Europeans more militarily advanced, even chinese fell. Instead of ighing, they embraced them to learn and be like them. Renewal led to richness today, china going down. Ban the samurai and feudal order want to copy europeans and americans. Sent smartest people out to absorb the rest of the world. Bought stuf and sent it back to japan, made factories. Only took 30-40 years, renegoiated resources from behavior 1900 japan is too strong to be controlled, hungry for more. Japan strong when all neighbors are weak. Japan gets into imperializaion copying westerners. 1868 meiji restoraion, 27 years later 1895 sino-japanese war over peninsula, knock china down. 1900 japan helps ic smash down boxer rebellion. 1905- russia-japan war, one sided naval, russia loses a bunch of ships in 15 minutes, beat.
