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CHINA, JAPAN, AND KOREA, 1840–1937 The Opium Wars of the 1840s and 1850s and the Boxer Rebellion of 1899–1901 changed the shape ofimperialism in Asia. These conflicts led to the establishment of special territorial enclaves and treaty ports within China, areas reserved for each imperial power. By the early twentieth century, Japan had taken advantage of China’s declining fortunes to gain control..

LANGUAGE REGIONS OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC There are eight major language families in Asia and the Pacific—Indo-European, Ural-Altaic, Indo-Aryan, Sino-Tibetan, Dravidian, Kadai, Austro-Asiatic, and Austronesian—from which most of the major local languages are derived. In addition, there are hundreds of regional and local dialects that are products of major language mixtures. Languages have been i..

Japan was closed to Western influence until U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry sailed a naval fleet into the harbor of Nagasaki in 1853 and forced the country to open its ports to U.S. trade. The “opening” of Japan spurred rapid industrialization in the country, helping it grow into an international economic and political power. This Japanese print depicts Perry’s gift of a railway to the Japanese in ..

BRITISH AND FRENCH EMPIRES IN INDIA, SRI LANKA, AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, CA. 1890 The French annexation of Indochina in the 1880s led the British to consolidate their hold over Burma and Malaya. In India and Malaysia, the British Raj was a mixture of direct and indirect rule.In some regions, such as the Indian Princely States, indigenous rulers exercised local control but were ultimately subordinate ..

MARITIME AND OVERLAND PASSAGES BETWEEN ASIA AND THE WEST, CA. 1430–1700 Western entry into Asia in about 1500 was preceded by centuries of contact over the Indian Ocean’s maritime passage and central Asia’s Silk Road, a series of highways that connected China to Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) and Europe. In the early fifteenth century, Chinese fleets commanded by General Zheng sailed to Africa ..

COLONIAL EMPIRES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC BASIN, CA. 1900 For nearly 250 years, the eastern coast of Asia and the Pacific Basin were subject to imperialist rule under the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, American, German, and Japanese. Western colonial activity in the region dates to the 1750s, when the British began to consolidate their colonial authority over India. It ended when Ma..

EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE PACIFIC BASIN, CA. 1788-1914 The European colonization of Australia and New Zealand began slowly because of geographic obstacles, namely the great distance from Europe, the high mountains of New Zealand, and the barren landscapes of Australia. Settlement increased after 1851, however, when gold was discovered in New South Wales and Victoria. The sca..

THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER WORLD WAR I Following World War I, Britain and France established colonies and protectorates in the former Ottoman provinces of the Middle East. The regions of Palestine and Transjordan came under British rule; Syria and Lebanon were French protectorates. 출처 : The Modern World - by Sarolta Takács, Ph.D. (2008) - Middle East 편 142page

INDEPENDENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST After World War II, Britain and France gave up most of their colonial claims in the Middle East.In 1946, Lebanon and Syria gained independence from France and Jordan earned its independence from Britain. In 1948, Jewishleaders in British Palestine accepted the establishment of the independent Jewish state of Israel. Oman, which had beenindependent since 1650, beca..

INDEPENDENCE IN LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES During the first quarter of the nineteenth century, most of South America achieved independencefrom Spain or Portugal. In the northern part of the continent, Simón Bolívar led a revolutionarymovement that toppled Spanish rule in what are now the nations of Panama, Colombia, Venezuela,Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay won ..