READ THIS SELECTION FROM RUDYARD KIPLING’S THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN (1899) AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING

QUESTIONS:

Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child.

1. What does he mean by “the White Man’s Burden”?

2. What was the exile of which he spoke?

3. What does the word captives indicate?

4. What is being portrayed in the picture?

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TERMS TO UNDERSTAND

• INDUSTRIALIZATION- move from Agricultural Society to Industrial one, resulting in urbanization.

• IMPERIALISM- A country controlling territory in another country for economic or political gain.

•MODERNIZATION- transition from a Traditional Society to a Modern one.

Imperialism In China Timeline 1700s: China self-sufficient, hard to imperialize. Early 1800s: British open Chinese trade by selling opium. 1830s: China tries to stop Britain, they refuse. China does NOT modernize. 1839-1842: Leads to the Opium War, China loses, begins Sphere of Influence. 1842: Treaty of Nanking – Britain gets Hong Kong, 5 ports, and $$$. 1856-1860: 2nd Opium War (results in more treaties, the “Unequal Treaties”). 1895: Open Door Policy (US and China trading partners). 1899: Boxer Rebellion (Nationalist uprising, China loses and is humiliated).

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THE 1ST OPIUM WAR (1839-1842)

1700s China was self-sufficient, did not want to trade with others

Britain used Opium, a drug containing morphine, to get China to begin trading

China tried to close trade

Britain used a modern navy of warships, cannons, and muskets, to crush China, re-open trade

TREATY OF NANKING (1842)

China loses the Opium War to Britain, signs this treaty

Britain gets Hong Kong, 5 trade ports, and $$$

China gets nothing – start of the “unequal treaties”, Open Door Policy, and spheres of influence.

THE BOXER REBELLION (1899)Violent Nationalist anti-foreign

and anti-Christian movement

Chinese citizens suffered great drought and disruption caused by Foreign Spheres of Influence

China uprising lasted until 1901

“The Great Powers” (8 nations, including USA, Russia, Japan, and Britain) joined together to defeat and humiliate China.

Imperialism In Japan Timeline Early 1600s: Europeans arrive in Japan (Trade guns, spread Christianity). 1614: Tokugawa Shoguns ban Christianity, close Japan for nearly 200

years. 1853: American Navy arrives (Matthew Perry), demand Japan opens trade

(Gunboat Diplomacy). Japan forced to open trade. 1868: Meiji Restoration – Tokugawa overthrown, power back to Emperor.

Japan begins to modernize and industrialize. 1894: Take Korea from China in Sino-Japanese War. World not impressed. 1905: Take Manchuria from Russia in Russo-Japanese War. World takes

notice. Japan now considered a strong world power.

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GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY (1853)

Matthew Perry and the American Navy arrive in Japan in1853 with black ships

Demands Japan open trade, uses “white flag” and letter to intimidate them

Japan forced to open trade

MEIJI RESTORATION (1868)

Chain of events that would restore Imperial rule to Japan under Meiji Emperor

Led to many political and social changes in Japan

Japan would modernize and become an industrial nation

SINO-JAPANESE WAR (1894)RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (1905)

In 1894, Japan defeats China in Sino-Japanese War. China was very weak at this point, so Japan was expected to win. Japan takes Korea.

In 1905, Japan defeats Russia in Russo-Japanese War. Russia was heavily favored to win due to their numbers, but Japan CRUSHED them and put the world on notice, becoming a world power to begin the 20th century.