ch. 19



Chapter 19
This chapter is about China, the Ottoman Empire, Japan, Persia (now Iran), Ethiopia, and Siam (currently Thailand), and Latin America. All of these places tried to get out of European colonial powers. Europe did not treat the countries they had power over right. They would change everyone's cultures to the European ways. This chapter looks closely specifically at China. It goes into Chian`s century crisis with King George III of Britain. The British took over pretty much everything. By Britain taking over it made China`s inner conflict worse. Then on top of that, they had Western pressures to become more modern and go by western philosophies... which failed. Then it goes on to the Lin zexu and confronting the Opium trade. The Opium trade is when western countries exported Opium grown in India and sold it to China. The Europeans used the profits from the sale of opium to buy Chinse goods (porcelain, silk, tea) were all popular in the West.  It goes on to talk about the Japanse and the differences of the rise of a new East Asian power. and modernizing Japanse-style.

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