7.3 - Imperial Cooperation and Competition in South Asia, Africa, and East Asia
- Boxer Rebellion (1900)
- East India Company
- Great Game
- Conflict over control in Central Asia
- Imperial Russia vs British Empire
- Japanese Empire
- Opium Wars (First and Second)
- British were mad that their opium was being destroyed
- They declared war on China
- First:
- Mostly naval
- British win
- Led to the Treaty of Nanking (1842)
- British control Hong Kong
- Treaty ports opened
- Chinese law would not always apply to foreigners
- Foreign involvement in finance
- Gunboats stayed in ports
- Second (1856 - 1860):
- British soldiers marched on Beijing
- Qing Empire
- Produced goods the West wanted: silk/tea
- Britain tried to get China to open up more avenues for trade by bringing western technology
- Qing people became addicted to British Opium
- Led to a war on drugs
- (First) Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
- China challenged Japan for rule in Korea
- Russo-Japanese War (1904 - 1905)
- Japanese put up a good fight
- Scramble for Africa
- 1880 - the European presence in Africa is still pretty scattered and sparse
- Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
- Made a treaty that said if a European power could capture part of Africa, others would not intervene
- By 1910, almost all of Africa was imperialized
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- treaty port system
- Port cities would have open trade in East Asia and the outside world
- Westerners largely determined trade policies