| A | B |
|---|
| opium war | disagreement between Britain and China over illegal drug imports; Britain won and gained Hong Kong, Beijing later on |
| decline of Qing Dynasty | caused by corruption,hunger, peasant unrest, influence of west forcing trade |
| Sun Yat-sen | father of modern china;defeated Qing; devloped western technology but chinese discipline "self strengthening" |
| extraterritoriality | living in a foreign country but not observing its laws |
| Spheres of influence | warllords in china granted exclusive trading rights to preferred European countries |
| Boxer Rebellion | fight to get rid of foreigners who were taking over of chinese land |
| Guzang Xu | young chinese emperor who wanted reforms to govt politics and education |
| Open door policy | American push to keep equal access to China for Western countries and unity of Chinese Empire |
| Meiji Restoration | Japanese reform to become modern industrial nation |
| Russo-japanese war | japan in conflict over this countries interest in Korea; Russia defeated |
| Mutsuhito | father of modern japan: spearheaded modern industrialism |
| Treaty of Kanagawa | Treaty forced on Japan by American Perry to open ports to American trade |
| Sat-Cho Alliance | two samarai warriors in Japan who fought the reforms of the emperor for Western influence; attacked Emperor |
| Civil Code of 1898 | Japanese laws based in German influence |
| Ito Hiro burni | First Prime minister of Japan in 1900s ;established more democratic model |
| Meiji economics | japanese industrial expansion: weapons, shipbuilding; government helped industries trained people; improved transportations |
| japanese education | Meiji reform of learning; adopted American model imported foreign specialists and sent bright students to study abroad |
