AMSCO AP World History 7.1

Essential Question: How did internal and external factors contribute to change in various states after 1900?

Many internal challenges
  * slow to expand education for peasants
  * slow to build more roads and methods of transportation
  * Tsarist gov resisted calls for political reforms
  * Revolution of 1905- 400,000 workers refused to work
  * Bloody Sunday 1905- peaceful march by thousands of workers asking for better working conditions
Led to external challenges
* Lost Crimean War (1853-1856) against the Ottoman empire
* Lost Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), a battle for control in Asia
Bolsheviks, revolutionary working class of Russia, seized power and set up communist government
Success of Bolsheviks changed the world, because it was the first example of a communist force leading a country

Qing dynasty in power since 1644, overthrown finally by revolution in 1911
Internal Challenges
  * ethnic differences and tension
  * danger of famine due to rapid population growth. Agriculture systems could not keep up with the people
  * low government revenues
External challenges
  * Industrialization in the rest of the world
  * Europeans bought tea, rhubarb, porcelain, silk
  * Chinese were not as interested in European goods
  * in response to European influence in China, many people rallied behind the empress in 1890s
Chinese Republic
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