MODERN HISTORY UNIT 1 MULTI-MODAL PRESENTATION – THE BOXER REBELLION INTRODUCTION The Boxer Uprising and Rebellion in 1901 further weakened an already destabilised Qing Government and was a key component in governmental change. After the first Opium war with Great Britain from 1839- 1842, China was coming under an increase in pressure from various foreign powers. Following the war, foreigners were given the rights to control trade, collect customs money and run the courts in dozens of Chinese
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The Boxer Uprising (1898-1901), also known as ‘Yi Ho Tuan’ Movement, was a major peasant uprising marked by anti-Manchu and anti-foreign sentiments. In the period after the Opium Wars, the nature of Sino-Western relations had changed, leading to a scramble for concessions. This had exposed the inefficacy of the Manchus. Simultaneously, it had intensified the socio-economic crisis already prevalent in the 19th century. This essay attempts to analyze the causes, nature and impact of the Boxer Movement
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employed in low-paying jobs due to lack of education. The Animal Farm, by George Orwell, opens with Old Major, a benevolent pig in Manor Farm, sharing his message about a rebellion against the egotistical human beings, which three intelligent pigs—Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer—pass on by organizing the Animalism. Although the rebellion breaks out successfully and the farm name changes to “Animal Farm”, things go sordid when Snowball is sent into an exile and Napoleon takes the leadership. Numbers of
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Date (CE) | Description of the event | Significance of the event | 1850 | -Taiping Rebellion-this was against the Manchu which was ruling the Qing Dynasty | -one of the bloodiest military conflicts in history-20 million people died, especially pedestrians | 1 August 1894 | -First sino-japanese war-this war was against China and Japan over the control of Korea -in the first six months China kept on losing which made them call for peace in February 1895 | -Intensification of imperialism -China
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internal and external responsible such as… The question is focused on the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911-12 and the role played by nationalism and foreign interference in bringing about its collapse. Answers may refer to the failure of the Boxer Rising in 1900 and the subsequent development of a new nationalist movement devoted to the overthrow of the dynasty. In 1905 Sun Yat-sen formed the Revolutionary Alliance based in Tokyo which was strongly supported by students who had trained overseas
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thinkers The reason for censorship of Enlightenment authors The impact of the Scientific Revolution on the Enlightenment Gutenberg’s printing press and its impact Adam Smith’s Laissez-faire (supply and demand free market) John Locke The Seven Years’ War impact in America and France The Congress of Vienna Napoleon’s impact on Latin America Revolutions Napoleon Bonaparte Revolutions in Haiti, Mexico, and Gran Columbia The impact of educated creoles in Latin American Revolutions The French
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Assess the impact of interference by foreign powers on china’s development in the 20th century. Has the impact of foreign powers been significant in China’s development throughout the 20th century? Or has China thrived by its own means to become one of the leading superpowers, with the world’s second largest army and an economy which is now rivaling that of the United States. To answer this question we must evaluate the key events which aid China’s development politically, economically, militarily
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believe that they are able to control themselves and not be controlled, “And so, almost before they knew what was happening, the rebellion had been successfully carried through; Jones was expelled and the Manor Farm was theirs. For the first few minutes, the animals could hardly believe their good fortune” (Orwell 12). Napoleon secretly gains power from this rebellion as he and Snowball are the leaders of the newly named
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“However well educated and clever a native maybe, and however brave he may prove himself. I believe that no rank we can bestow on him would cause him to be considered an equal of the British Officer.”(Lord Kitchener) New imperialism, the act of controlling territories under a greater power of greater nations, was popular during the nineteenth century. China and India were two independent nations, so similar, but yet also so different. Their imperialists had motives over raw material, resources, and
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became dominant in main cities of China. This was causing many of the foreign cultures were bleeding out into other parts of the city( called Spheres of Influence), which made China angry. So China started to create secret groups, among which were the Boxers, to eliminate the foreigners. Hundreds of thousands of people on both the Chinese side and the foreign side (consisting of America, Britain, France,Germany and Japan) died but ultimately in the end, the foreign countries won. America didn’t want
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