Empires in Collision
1750-1900
Significance of these map's on time
- 1793- Chinese reject British request for open trade
- 1798- Napolean invades Egypt
- 1830s- Famine and rebellions in Japan
- 1838-1876 Tanzimat reforms in the ottoman empires (reorganization, took shape as the Ottaman leadership sought to provide the economic, social, and legal underpinnings for a strong and newly decentralized state)
- 1850-1864 Taiping uprising in China (The absence of any internal upheaval,which threatened the very existence of the ruling dynasty)
- 1856-1858 second opium war (The British, offended by the seizure of their property in opium and emboldened by their new military power,sent a naval expedition to China, determined to end the restrictive conditions under which they had long traded with that country.)
- 1853- admiral perry arrives in Japan
- 1868- Meiji Restoration in Japan (a brief civil war was triggered and by 1868 led to a political takeover by a group of young samari from southern Japan)
- 1894-1895 Sino-Japanese war
- 1896- Ethiopian defeat of Italy preserves Ehtiopia's independence
- 1899-1901 Boxer rebellion in China
- 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war (
- 1908- Young Turk takeover in Ottaman Empire (
- 1910- Japan annexes Korea
- 1911- Chinese revolution; end of Qing dynasty
China revolution
- 1911- Chinese revolution; end of Qing dynasty
Meiji revolution
- 1868- Meiji Restoration in Japan (a brief civil war was triggered and by 1868 led to a political takeover by a group of young samari from southern Japan)
Tanzimat reformation
- 1838-1876 Tanzimat reforms in the ottoman empires (reorganization, took shape as the Ottaman leadership sought to provide the economic, social, and legal underpinnings for a strong and newly decentralized state)