Western People
An American commodore who led a fleet of warships into Tokyo Bay to convince Japan to trade with the rest of the world.
Who is Matthew Perry?
Hired Indian soldiers who were either Hindu or Muslim.
What are Sepoys?
The company that traded with India for silk, spices, tea, etc. and helped the British Empire gain a foothold there.
What is the British East India Company?
A drug that Britain sold to China in order to ensure continuing trade with them. Millions of Chinese were addicted to it.
What is opium?
The name for the period in early 1900s Japan when the Japanese emperor was restored to power.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
The British Captain in charge of British trade in China, who gave the confiscated opium over to the Chinese and let them destroy it in order to start a war.
Who is Captain Charles Elliot?
A Chinese administrator tasked with shutting down the opium trade and destroying all the opium in China.
Who is Lin Tse Zu?
The only city in China that outsiders were allowed to trade at in the 1800s.
What is Canton?
What religious offense caused the Sepoy Rebellion/Mutiny?
Enfield rifle cartridges were greased with cow and pig fat. Muslims despise pigs as unclean, while Hindus revere cows and despise the slaughter of them.
The agreement between America and Japan to open trade with western countries.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
The British missionary who wrote the Indian Bible.
Who is William Carey?
Who is Hong Xiuquan?
The Opium Wars lasted this many years.
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The ancient class system in India that divided people into 5 different _________, which couldn't be moved between. Encouraged by the British to divide Indians against each other and make them easier to subjugate.
What is the caste system?
How did Japan assert themselves as the most powerful country in Asia in the early 1900s?
Defeating Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.
The first Protestant missionary to China.
Who is Robert Morrison?
The woman who ruled China officially and through her adopted son Guangxu in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Refused to stop the Boxers and led a coup against her son's rule. She may have been responsible for his death.
Who is Empress Dowager Cixi?
A rebellion in China that drove out, tortured, and killed all foreigners, including Christians.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
British people in India did not discriminate based on race, but based on this factor instead.
What is class/caste?
The war started by America turning on a country they had just helped free from foreign control.
What is the Philippine-American War?
A missionary that translated the Bible into Japanese.
Who is Samuel R. Brown?
The president of the Philippines who led them to victory and independence against the Spanish in 1898.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
A war fought over Korea between two other Asian countries.
What is the Sino-Japanese War?
Why did the British government want to hinder missionaries from spreading the gospel in India?
They believed it would conflict with other religions like Islam and Hinduism and lead to unrest and instability.
Name three ways that Britain improved India under their empire.
Railroads, telegraph system, postal system, improved farming methods.