BIOL 1001 Chapter : Biology Chapter 12 Part 2
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Answer the following using information from the text and lectures in class. You will be required to answer two of the following: discuss the growth in imperialism from 1750 to 1900. Africa and asia: compare and contrast the development of china and japan from 1750 to 1900, trade and cultural merger became necessary for both nations, though china, to their great disadvantage, was much more resistant, believing that their. Confucianist culture would win the hearts and minds of foreigners as it had for the last 2000 years. They refused numerous attempts by the british to encourage trade until incidents in opium trade erupted into the opium wars in 1839. Britain used their superior naval ability to dominate the chinese, imposing the treaty of nanjing, which pried open trade between china and the western powers. His effort to do this resulted in what was known as the taiping movement, a fierce civil war which worked in tandem with the.