Module 3

1. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of 19th century China?

In many ways China was the victim of its own earlier success. Having a huge population boom with agriculture unable to keep up. Unemployment, misery, and starvation also. China's famed centralized and bureaucracy did not grow to keep pace with the growing population, so it could not handle important problems in a good way such as tax collection, flood control, social welfare, and public security. The Taiping Uprising, which set much of the country aflame between  1850 and 1864 found an inspiration in a unique form of Christianity.


2. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the 19th century?
  1. China was forced to continue to import opium. 2. China had to cede Hong Kong to Britain and open a number of other ports to European merchants.3. It had to set tariffs into China at the low rate of 5 percent.
  2. British, Americans, and other western merchants had found an enormous, growing, and very profitable market for this highly addictive drug.
  3. Foreigners received the right to buy land in China, and they also given the right to live in China under their own laws.
  4. China was opened to Christian missionaries. 
  5. Western powers were permitted to patrol some of their interior waterways of China.8. Lost control of Vietnam, Korea, and Taiwan.


5. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century?
  1. The empire shrank in size both because of European aggression in place like Egypt and because of successful nationalist independence movements in Balkans.
  2. The ottoman state had weakened, particularly in its ability to raise necessary revenue, as provincial authorities and local warlords gained greater power.
  3. China biggest problem was about Europe, because they were forced to trade, the Europeans gave Opium to China and this resulted in people to be addicted.

Comments

  1. crystalApril 2, 2020 at 12:15 PM

    Hi Aya,
    I liked how to listed out your answers. This made it easy for me to follow along and understand your main points.

    ReplyDelete

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