WORLD HISTORY

COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM

IMPERIALISM IN ASIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
These were regions of China in which Britain, France and others dominated trade and investment.
A
Extraterritorial rights
B
Spheres of influence
C
Boxer Rebellion
D
Guangxu
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Following its loss of the two Opium Wars, China entered a period where foreign imperial powers developed ‘spheres of influence’ within its borders. Each of the following nations developed and established ‘spheres of influence’ in China after the mid-1800s: France, Britain, Germany, Russia and Japan.

Detailed explanation-2: -opium trade, in Chinese history, the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 1839, tensions between China and the foreign inter-ests that were pumping opium across its borders had reached crisis proportions, and the Opium Wars were the result.

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