HIS284H5 Lecture Notes - Ryukyu Islands, Satsuma Domain, Technocracy
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Nation state as a essential unitnatural form. The eu is not a nation state, works better then nation state, more powerful politically and economically. An existence of a centralized government over a large land mass. So eu is catching up to china. 1100 for example, china had the best economy. China"s economy had the platform to develop first during the new trade (new world silver) Europe only started developing in the 1500s. Lower yang zi river was probably ahead in development. Wages was not a thing in china. The great divergence (why did europe pull ahead of the asian empires of the tokugawa and the qing) Traditional timing (1600s), but more current timing (1900s) because prior to that china was more prosperous. Some ppl said it"s cultural thing-confusian exams and the renascence. Sino japanese war- aug 1894 formal declaration of war over korea. Could not match the rapid growth of japan. They were however defeated after losing 5 ships.
