Thursday, December 9, 2010

Hw#4

1. 2 effects that affected China was Peoplee started getting addicted to drugs and they started rebelling against them.
2. The chinese emperor lost his country because they were defeated in the war.
3.The British people took their trading ports. They had control over sice they won. They aldo made the chinese people sign two treaties.
4.The open door policy was recognized as the Berlin Conference. A lot of Imperial forces had acess to China.

Current events

This article is about China having a missile that can reach up to the American northwest. China is getting more power with it's new warfare technology. But America is keeping close eye at China. China's missiles are mobile. They can be launched by a truck. Not only that, they have a inflight capicity. That gives the air force a much longer range. China might even retake Taiwan in a war.

After the opium wars in China, They were weak. They were controlled by British. They were forced to the treaty of Nanking and Treaty of Tianjin. It included provisions for the opening of traditional ports to unrestricted foreign trades. Chinese Dynasty was put to an end. They were defeated badly.

But now China has gotten better warfare technology. They have weapons that have nuclear power. They're investing lots of money in war equipment. The population of the people in china may be poor but their army are getting stronger. They aren'y addicted to drugs but a country like Mexico is. It seems that China is rising

Friday, December 3, 2010

Hw#1

1.Sepoy: They are Indian soldiers
2.Jewel in the crown: the most valuable of all british colonies.
3.Sepoy mutiny: It's when they captured the city of Delhi.
4.Raj: The british rule over India.
2.Cause Effect
1.Decline of the The Indians started a rebellion
Mughal Empire
2.Colonial policies They started protesting
3.Seproy Mutiny They started capturing cities and attacking.

3.It made India rebel against the british. Just like the other countries that had imperialism.