UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Industrial Revolution, Tokugawa Shogunate, Expansionism
4 Apr 2016
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This second industrial revolution concentrated and reinforced economic power for these industrializing nations. The world economy created a demand for in fields, factories, and mines. New technologies in warfare and transportation increased european global dominance and economic integration. Steam-powered gunboats and breech-loading rifles opened new territories for conquest and trade. Railroads facilitated the movement of peoples and goods to coastal ports. The suez canal allowed for more efficient travel between europe and. Pressures of expansion in japan, russia, and china. Japan, russia, and china provide 3 contrasting models of expansion and conquest in east asia. In the 1850s, the americans, russians, dutch, and british forced the. Tokugawa rulers to accept treaties opening japanese ports. In 1868, young military reformers toppled the tokugawa shogunate promising to restore japan to its former mythic greatness. The meji restoration strove to restore japan through reforms and propaganda including: A single gov"t/ political community with linguistic and ethnic homogeneity and superiority.
