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4. What strategies did China adopt to confront its various problems? In what ways did these strategies reflect China’s own history and culture as well as the new global order?

The chinese changed many systems in order to help with there problems one include the installation of the examination system that helped find candidates for there bureaucrartic systems that they were starting. They also started a self strengthening program to help traditional china but they also started to use ideas from the west to help. Many of the traditional conservative leaders were against the self strenghting programs because they feared that the older systems of power would disappear. The traditional leaders also controlled most of the industrial enterprises and they used they weren’t focusing on strengthing the nation but rather themselves. Traditional leaders didn’t believe that they needed foreign help like with materials and there industries but the new leaders realized that they needed help from the west because everyone relied on each other.

5. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the 19thcentury?

 Because of the past invasions and attacks the Ottoman Empire was left very weak compared to other countries. The Ottoman Empire was no longer able to deal with the West and many feared that it would not be able to protect them from falling under Christian powers. It also shrank in size which caused a major population loss, with that it caused for a weaker military, and the Janissaries weren’t as effective as they were in the past. Europe and other western countries also were growing fast and they couldn’t compete with the cheaper trading and the gap technological gap was growing between the two worlds. They were not able to compete because of the lower population and technology so things were having to be more expensive than cheaper goods that were being sold In Europe. They tried to catch up with the western world and they had to take loans from other countries and those loans only made it worse for them which led to there demise

1. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of 19thcentury China?

Because of the growing population there were many more peasants on china compared to middle class and that gap only kept growing. Agriculture was a main concern for the population because the small farmers couldnt keep up with the demand of agriculture especially with not much land for them to use with them not having money for themselves. Chinas government was not belong either because they weren’t doing anything to help with the population growth and how it could affect the lower classes. Many people of the lower class made themselves rebelliion leaders and would get enough peasants to rebel and show there voice to the government. The lower class was very opposed to the Qing dynasty on account of its foriegn Manchurian origins. The uprising of the Taiping revolt helped china to change its ways and it was formed around some aspects fo christianity. 


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  1. Ruth HernandezMay 4, 2020 at 12:26 AM

    I agree with your analysis about the decline of the Ottoman Empire. To begin with, the invasion that Napoleon undertook was a blow that caused them to lose land. After the French left, independent Egypt pursued a modernizing empire. In addition to this, other parts of this empire that included Greece, Siberia, Bulgaria and Romania obtained their independence due to their increasing yearning for independence and support from Britain and Russia to obtain it.

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