History essay 1000 words, due within 35 hours
Imperialism Part Two – Asia
“The Eastern Question” – The Ottoman Empire
The “sick man of Europe”
Afghanistan – Khyber Pass – India
The “Great Game”
Serbia (1878), Bulgaria (1908), Romania (1877)
British India
Mughal Dynasty
British East India Company
Indian Mutiny – 1857
India Act – 1858 – Direct Rule to 1947
“The Jewel in the Crown.”
South East Asia
Dutch East Indies
Jules Ferry (French PM 1880-81; 1883-85)
Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
Myanmar
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
China
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
Dowager Empress Cixi (R: 1861-1908)
Opium Wars (1839-42; 1856-60)
Taiping Rebellion (1850-64)
Hong Xiuquan (1814-64)
General Gordon
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
“unequal treaties”
“extraterritoriality”
Japan
“Meiji Restoration”
Sino-Japanese War 1894-95
Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905