Ottoman Empire & Qing

Empire

Era of Changes

1750 to 1900

IMPERIALISM (1770s-1914)

Industrialized nations (nation-states

of Europe, U.S., Russia, and later

Japan) strengthened their control over

their colonies AND established

transoceanic empires throughout Asia,

the Pacific, and Africa.

Imperialism is this extension of

political and economic control.

European Colonies - 1700

Industrialized nations control

by 1900

Ottoman Empire & Qing

Empire

Era of Changes

1750 to 1900

Ottoman Empire & Qing Empire –

the turbulent 19th century

Ottoman Empire & Qing Empire –

the turbulent 19th century

Ottoman Expansion 1300 - 1600

The Battle of Lepanto, 1571

Nationalist revolutions &

European advances led to the

Ottoman Empire losing territory

EX. Independence in the Balkans

Semi-Independence in North Africa

Later British influence in Egypt

The Decline of Ottoman Rule

The Empire became known as "the sick man of Europe” by Europeans.

MANCHU CHINA – the QING

DYNASTY (the last dynasty of China)

Qing China produced more goods and held onto

a favorable trade balance into the late 1700s.

An example from China- the

Opium Wars 1830s

Silver to China!

Tea & Silk

from China

Opium Warehouse - India

BLOCKADE OF FOREIGN

FACTORIES

Opium War 1839

Treaty of Nanjing

THE OPIUM WARS

Chinese Rulers sing-along

-to the tune of “Frere Jacques”?

Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han

Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han

Sui, Tang, Song

Sui, Tang, Song

Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic

Then comes Revolution

Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong

Empires that didn’t strike back!

Qing Dynasty of China (1644 – 1911)

The end of a 4000 years of dynastic cycles.

Ottoman Empire (1300 – 1918)

600 year old powerhouse fell.

CAUSES

In the 1700s, Qing China & the Ottoman Empire

• Had governments that resisted economic change & attempted to maintain pre-industrial forms of economic production

• Had leadership that underestimated the growing power of the European nations

Empires that didn’t strike back!

CHANGES

• Reforms limited by conservative elites

• Economy weakened

• Political Rebellions

• European pressure / takeover