HST 101 Study Guide - Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Sahara, History Of Japan
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Half of the exam will be based on one of the following six questions. Students will select one of two choices drawn at random on the day of the exam. The other half of the exam will involve five short answer identifications and a mapwork exercise. I essay answer (50%: compare and contrast the impact of the west (europe and the u. s. ) in china and japan from the 1500s to the 1900s. Similar-started by isolating and limiting western influence, civil war and rebellions, and both built militaries. Different- china communism, japan emperor(reinstated), japan open to the west, different sides in wwii. Comparisons little that interested ne asia force after more than three hundred years of asian isolation. Taiping rebellion 1850-1864-peasant rebellion against emperor following failure of the. In feudal japan, samurais and gentry dominated the countryside while merchants. Boxer rebellion 1890s-fueled by xenophobia, angry young men joined the society.
