GCU 114 : Unit 4 Stuff.doc
Document Summary
Economic thesis: between 1600 and 1914 china originally had a prospe. Outline: china"s government (qing) was pretty strong, had a trade surplus, taiping rebellion, opium war, boxer rebellion, europeans begin to gain power in china. Thesis: between 1650 and 1900, japan evolved from a decentralized and non-industrialized state to a centralized and imperialistic state after the meji restoration. Outline: up through 1868 the tokugawa shogunate employed isolationist policies and focused mainly on internal affairs, rigid classes, shogunate and daimyo, samurai, japan"s emperor acted as a symbol, no power, feudal system. Imperialism, annexed korea (russo-japan war), took parts of china (sino-japan war), European powers forced japan to give up liaodong region. 4: continuity=political: emperor did not have power, economic: did not allow european products to enter japan"s economic, social: did not allow europeans to enter japan. Thesis: between 1600 and 1900: ottomans were stagnating in their oddness.
