What were the reasons for China's expansion and then decline as an economic power during the eighteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
A. China's expansion
1. Qing ruled world's fastest growing empire in the eighteenth century
2. colonized recently absorbed lands and encouraged immigration
a. reimbursed travel costs, land grants, tax breaks, and loans for
seeds, livestock, and housing
3. expanded into sea trade and increased profit
4. more content with profit than power unless it affected trade
5. economic dynamism of the empire was evident through rising revenues
B. Chinese decline
1. reached the limits of expansion with the technology at its disposal
2. had little wish or will to make new conquests, adopt new technologies, or
undertake new initiatives
You might also like to view...
The political changes in Japan in the 1930s reflected changes in
A. Asia as a whole. B. Japan’s demographics. C. Japan’s political institutions. D. the composition and attitudes of Japan’s ruling elite. E. the Japanese constitution.
Why was the thinking behind the domino theory in American foreign policy fundamentally flawed?
A. Vietnam was too exhausted from the fighting of World War II to find itself toppled so easily. B. The revolutions in Southeast Asia were not inspired by ideological leaders in Moscow. C. Moscow and Hanoi had agreed that Vietnam was more useful to Soviet Union as a neutral nation. D. The threat of nuclear destruction would have prevented any nation from succumbing to communism.
Feminists that came of age at the beginning of the twenty-first century are labeled
________. Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
To what degree was religion a major influence in Indian art and literature? Cite representative examples from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam to illustrate and support your viewpoint.
What will be an ideal response?