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Increased manufacturing = need for new markets Increased manufacturing = need for raw materials Increased manufacturing = challenge to existing
manufacturing centers (Middle East, India, etc.)
Capitalism Free enterprise Free market Free trade
The Enlightenment Popular Sovereignty Representative
Government Personal Freedoms
Nationalism
Lin Zexu destroying opium. In the summer of 1839, Lin Zexu confiscated and destroyed 2.6 million pounds of opium. It took 500 laborers 22 days to destroy all of the opium.
Get rid of old institutions holding you back
Modernize the military Improve infrastructure
RAILROADS! May need foreign investment
Industrialize Take advantage of natural resources! May need foreign investment
“Westernize” your government
Early reforms of Selim III (1789-1807) resisted by Janissaries
Janissaries slaughtered by Mahmud II in 1826
Tanzimat Reforms Modernize military and bureaucracy University education focusing on math &
science Western technology (telegraphs, railroads, etc.) Constitution of 1876
Industrialization slowed by climate, government monopolies, etc.
Reforms of Muhammad Ali Modernize the military
Manufactured weapons Emphasize cotton production
Financed by Britain bankers Built railroads
Successors Suez Canal
Led to British making Egypta protectorate
Emancipation of serfs Helped create urban labor force
Modernize military Trans-Siberian railroad Count Witte (1892-1903)
Promoted industry & banking Encouraged foreign investment
Heavy Industry 4th in steel; 2nd in oil
Modernized the military Depended upon British
and French investment Built railroads Mining and Textiles
Government regulated Merchants given
additional freedoms No major political or
social reforms
Abolish feudal order Daimyo and samurai
class abolished Constitutional
government Constitution of 1889
Established constitutional monarchy with legislature
Suffrage limited—only 5% could vote in 1890
Japanese industrialization Modernize the military, infrastructure,
communication, education, etc. Zaibatsu
Combination of state initiative and private investment
Consolidates economic power into the hands of a few powerful families
Vertical monopolies Mitsubishi and Mitsui
Many companies started by men of samurai origins
Started by Benito Juarez (1858-1872) Tried to limit power of
landowners and Catholic church
New liberal constitution Attempts at land reform
fail 50% of rural population
landless by 1910 Larger gap between creoles
and mestizos/natives
Porfirio Diaz (1876-1910) Built railroads
Integrates regional economy Improved banking system Focused on oil & mining Depended on foreign
investment U.S. investment
30 million pesos in 1885 1 billion pesos in 1910
Conservatives Janissaries Abdul Hamid Ulama and Qadis
Nationalists Young Turks
Religious Movements Madhist Revolt
Millenarianism
Conservatives Kulaks (land owners) Certain tsars
Liberals Intelligentsia
Radicals Anarchists Socialists & Communists
Bolshevik Party
Conservatives Scholar-gentry Dowager Empress Cixi
Religious Movements Taiping Rebellion (1850-
1864) Caused by a myriad of
problems Natural disasters, economic collapse,
government corruption and the defeat in the Opium War, growing Anti-Manchu sentiment, etc.
Led by Hong Xiuquan
Hong Xiuquan’s army was able to seize 44 Chinese cities including the Southern capital of Nanjing ( above)
Nationalism Boxer Rebellion (1898-
1901) Anti-Imperialist movement Backed by Qing government Put down by Western powers
Nationalist Party Led by Sun Yatsen Modeled after Western ideas
Liberal government Nation-state Social Reforms