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The goal of the french was "mission civilatrice." THis meant the civilizing of the native through assimilation to french culture. The Southeast Asians reacted in a violent way as any one would when they are being overthrown. In the 1850 the southeast executed a french missionary as well as the Spanish Bishop of Tonkin. The constant disagreements led to the Second Opium War. This was a war between Britain and France against China and parts of Southest Asia.
 * Social-**

In the beginning, the predominant religion throughout Southeast Asia was buddhism. They followed Buddha's philosophy of a central path. In the 1840s a group of Catholic priests went into Vietnam in hopes of converting them from Buddhists to Catholics.
 * Religion**-

Conflict began when the anti-Catholic Vietnamese leader killed seven of the priests in Vietnam. Emperor Napolean the 3rd responded by sending the french army into Vietnam. He defeated the Vietnamese and began building a french empire known as Indochina or French China. The area encompassed Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

As a result of new trade, inventions, and ideas,people of Asia and of the world naturally migrated. They would work on plantations and in mines in Southeast Asia. People from areas of Asia and the rest of the world migrated to work on plantations and in the mines in southeast asia. The region became a melting pot of hindus, muslims, christians, and buddhists. The racial and religious conflicts that were created in this pot are still seen today.

=Timeline= late 1700's: local chinese merchents and european nations pressure china into opening strict trade with britain 1830's:opium sales grown dramatically and china was going bankrupt. 1839: imperial commissioner Lin Zexu sent represenatives to britain to end the trading relationship 1839:Britain dclares war on china starting the opium wars. 1842:after 3 years of war the british defeated china in the opium wars

=**Political**=


 * China**:chinas policy towards the Europeans was that they saw the Europeans as infiorior. the europeans and local chinese merchants pressured the chinese to open a very restricted trading agreement with britain. china was very conservitive and saw themselves as supiorer to the british to a fault. with the opium trade from china to britain the british basically paid the chinese in opium instead of silver and with this came drug addicts so the chinese try to cut trading relations with britain so britain declared war starting 1839 opium wars[[image:http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/bender4/eall131/EAHReadings/module02/imageforcontent/opiumwar.jpg]]. the chinese were defeated and the empire was divided into spheres of influence giving much of chinese territories to the europeans.

=**Japan**:= in the year 1600 the japanese almost became completly isolated by closing their borders. they did very little trading. in 1852 american navy vessel with commander matthew perry came into japan and proposed a trading agreement, knowing they couldent defeat the westerners in war they accepted prompting th overthrow of the japanese shogun and instatement of the japanese emporer. japan began what would be known as the meiji restoration. the restoration was basically the modernizing of japan to keep up with the westerners. they very quickly built up military strength rivaling that of the europeans and showed this strength in the invasion of korea in the Ruso-japnese war in which the japanese assisted by the british faught the russians and won control over korea.

Korea was a very conservitive nation with very conservitive confucios beleifs. they closed their border cutting them from the outside world. with this came with economic problems and were behind in technoligy so the koreans were no match for the japanese modernized army
 * Korea**

=__**Economic**__=

the result of this was the opium wars which declared china as basically european property so the europeans had full control. spheres of influence were in effect in which part of china was under the control of britain while another part was under russian control and so on. chinese officials were forced to sign unequal treaties.
 * China**:when the chinese first began trading with britain it was very strict. the trading was heavily in favor of the chinese until the british got a hold of the opium trade. britain made china take the opium as payment and with this was an economic downturn with the increase of crime and drug addicts.[[image:http://www.drugs-opium.com/opium.jpg]]


 * japan**:japans economy was stable though it was isolated in 1600, but the meiji restoration modernized the japanese empire so as an effect the economy was more industrialized creating war vessals and weapons. as japan became modernized the westerners accepted them as a legitiment government.


 * Korea**:the korean government isolated the nation from the rest of the world. with this the economy drasticly fell and the technoligy was far behind from everyone else. in the ruso-japanese war the japanese took over the korean peninsula and kept as a colony.

=Technological= Chineese Military began to use gunpowder for smoke bombs and explosives. As they began to use it frequently they made land mines, gernades, and bombs. Around the time of the 13th century gunpowder began to spread around the world and the the gun was made. When the compass was invented, it was not used for navigation. But is was used to make sure buildings were straight and were made from lodestone. The orginial were said to be made by the Chinese in the 4th century.**
 * Durning the time of the 19th century, East Asia began to make many discoveries and inventions. The printing press was invented 1031 and was the first metal-based printing press. Many books and money were made from thier printing press. Paper also became invented as the printing became more popular in East Asia.

=Social= Also China was tradind for opium and was paying India for it. Britain became invloved it this trade and thus began the opium wars.**
 * As China was expanding in trade, Korea refused to trade with westerners and decieded to adopt a isolationist policy. Korea adopted a Confucianism system for moral devlopment of the individual so the state can be governed by moral virtue.

Intellectual But in China, the public was forced to take civil service tests to prove they were loyal to the country and able to teach fellow Chinese people.**
 * In the country fo Japan, they believed that the empreor was thought to be god and he was chosen by the gods to be the right leader for the people.

The Fall Important Leaders
 * The reason for the fall of these major dynastys was due to People disliking how the empire was and tried to overthrow the great leader. The Shang dynasty collapsed because of the Zhou attacked the Shangs capital. Then the Zhou falled because the Spring and Autumn Period came about and philosopheres rose up.**
 * One of the most important leaders who founded the Shang dynasty was Shih Huang-ti because he was said to be a brillant general in his time. He conqured all of the Quin within 6 years. Another important leader was Liu Pang because he was a common farmerand he brought out a new age of ecnomic prosperity due to the significant growth of money.

__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_East_Asia#16th_century_to_1945__ . Halsall, Paul. "Sourcebook." Internet East Asian History Sourcebook. March 13, 2007. Fordham, Web. 14 Oct 2009.** Pictures** http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Model_Si_Nan_of_Han_Dynasty.jpg http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/financiers/docs/opium_poppy_big.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Ming_matchlocks.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Han_commanderies_and_kingdoms_CE_2.jpg