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Name: Class Period Date: "Opium Wars" (Imperialism Lesson “3") (pg. 930-941) WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THESE PICTURES FROM PG. 930 & 938 OF OUR BOOK: "Opium Wars" CHINA was among the countries that confronted an aggressive and industrializing West while maintaining its formal independence (unlike the other Asian countries who were conquered and colonized by the west). JAPAN, The OTTOMAN EMPIRE, PERSIA (now Iran), ETHIOPIA, and SIAM (now Thailand) also resisted the West (Europe and America). Latin America also falls in this category. The governments of these regions avoided outright incorporation into European colonial empires, keeping some ability to resist European aggression and to reform or transform their own societies. But even though these countries resisted European invasion, they needed to deal with European influence in other ways; FIRST, they faced the immense military might and political ambitions of rival European states. SECOND, they became involved in networks of trade, investment, and sometimes migration that rose from an industrializing and capitalist Europe to generate a new world economy. THIRD they were touched by various aspects of traditional European culture, as some among
Transcribed Image Text:Name: Class Period Date: "Opium Wars" (Imperialism Lesson “3") (pg. 930-941) WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THESE PICTURES FROM PG. 930 & 938 OF OUR BOOK: "Opium Wars" CHINA was among the countries that confronted an aggressive and industrializing West while maintaining its formal independence (unlike the other Asian countries who were conquered and colonized by the west). JAPAN, The OTTOMAN EMPIRE, PERSIA (now Iran), ETHIOPIA, and SIAM (now Thailand) also resisted the West (Europe and America). Latin America also falls in this category. The governments of these regions avoided outright incorporation into European colonial empires, keeping some ability to resist European aggression and to reform or transform their own societies. But even though these countries resisted European invasion, they needed to deal with European influence in other ways; FIRST, they faced the immense military might and political ambitions of rival European states. SECOND, they became involved in networks of trade, investment, and sometimes migration that rose from an industrializing and capitalist Europe to generate a new world economy. THIRD they were touched by various aspects of traditional European culture, as some among
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