ottoman empire & qing chinese empire 1750-1900s
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Ottoman Empire & Qing
Empire
Era of Changes
1750 to 1900
IMPERIALISM (1770s-1914)
Industrialized nations (nation-states
of Europe, U.S., Russia, and later
Japan) strengthened their control over
their colonies AND established
transoceanic empires throughout Asia,
the Pacific, and Africa.
Imperialism is this extension of
political and economic control.
European Colonies - 1700
Industrialized nations control
by 1900
Ottoman Empire & Qing
Empire
Era of Changes
1750 to 1900
Ottoman Empire & Qing Empire –
the turbulent 19th century
Ottoman Empire & Qing Empire –
the turbulent 19th century
Ottoman Expansion 1300 - 1600
The Battle of Lepanto, 1571
Nationalist revolutions &
European advances led to the
Ottoman Empire losing territory
EX. Independence in the Balkans
Semi-Independence in North Africa
Later British influence in Egypt
The Decline of Ottoman Rule
The Empire became known as "the sick man of Europe” by Europeans.
MANCHU CHINA – the QING
DYNASTY (the last dynasty of China)
Qing China produced more goods and held onto
a favorable trade balance into the late 1700s.
An example from China- the
Opium Wars 1830s
Silver to China!
Tea & Silk
from China
Opium Warehouse - India
BLOCKADE OF FOREIGN
FACTORIES
Opium War 1839
Treaty of Nanjing
THE OPIUM WARS
Chinese Rulers sing-along
-to the tune of “Frere Jacques”?
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Sui, Tang, Song
Sui, Tang, Song
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Then comes Revolution
Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong
Empires that didn’t strike back!
Qing Dynasty of China (1644 – 1911)
The end of a 4000 years of dynastic cycles.
Ottoman Empire (1300 – 1918)
600 year old powerhouse fell.
CAUSES
In the 1700s, Qing China & the Ottoman Empire
• Had governments that resisted economic change & attempted to maintain pre-industrial forms of economic production
• Had leadership that underestimated the growing power of the European nations
Empires that didn’t strike back!
CHANGES
• Reforms limited by conservative elites
• Economy weakened
• Political Rebellions
• European pressure / takeover