PREMID

• Asian nations were wealthiest and most powerful


  1500s
• China


  "Middle Kingdom," was wealthiest and most powerful
• Chinese products


  • silk
  • porcelain
• Chinese products were in high demand in Europe
• Chinese fleets under Admiral Ching Ho surpassed Spanish and Portuguese expeditions
• India's spices vital to Eurasian trade
• Japan highly advanced and urbanized
• Portugal had trading posts in India (e.g., Goa)


  16th-17th Centuries
• Spanish controlled the Philippines
• Dutch controlled the East Indies (Indonesia)
• British settled Australia and New Zealand, displacing natives
• British settled Australia and New Zealand


  1770s-1850s
• British East Indies Company ruled India for profit
• Sepoy Revolt in India against British East Indies Company (1857)
• British government took direct rule of India (British Raj)
• Indian National Congress formed for modernization and independence


  1885
• Manchu or Xing Dynasty took power in China after overthrowing Ming


  1644
• First Opium War between Britain and China


  1836-1842
• Second Opium War between Britain, France, and China


  1856-1880
• Taiping Revolt in China led by Hong Xiuquan


  1850-1864
• China defeated by Japan in war, losing Taiwan to Japan


  1895
• Boxer Rebellion in China against foreign influence


  1900
• Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan


  1853
• Meiji Restoration in Japan, transforming into a modern Westernized nation-state


  1868
• Japan adopted a new constitution, modeled after Germany's


  1889
• Japan defeated Russia in war, taking control of Korea


  1905
• Rebellion in China led to the end of the imperial dynasty and the creation of a republic


  1911-1912
• France took over Indochina (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam)


  1860s-1907
• United States acquired Puerto Rico and the Philippines after Spanish-American War


  1898
• Japan defeated Russia in war, acquiring control of Korea


  1905