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Europeans had been in contact with china for more than 200 years
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Rebels seized nanking the second largest city of the empire and massacred 25,000 men, women, and children
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Chinese agreed to legalize the opium trade and open new ports to foreign trade.
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Europeans had been in contact with china for more than two hundred years
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their armies attacked the shogun’s palace in Kyoto and proclaimed that the authority of the emperor had been restored
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Traditional values were also given a firm legal basis which limited the right to vote to men.
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Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1898
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Sun Yat-sen forms Revolutionary Alliance in China
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President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States
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Japan annexed Korea outright.
