COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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Question
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The Japanese, took over the Philippines
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The Chinese, took over Singapore
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The Chinese, established banking and trade networks
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The Europeans, established banking and trade networks
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the century after 1840, around 20 million people from China and 30 million Indians moved to the growing cities and plantations of southeast Asia. In scale, their migration was comparable to movement across the Atlantic; in nature, migration within Asia was circular more often than it was permanent.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chinese settlers eventually became dominant in the commercial sector in many societies, including most Western colonies, in Southeast Asia. Increasing numbers of migrants arrived to trade or mine for tin and gold, ushering in a “Chinese century” in the Southeast Asian economies from around 1700 into the mid-1800s.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1800s saw unrest like the Indian Revolt of 1857 that transformed India and gave control to the British Raj. At the end of the century, the great Boxer Rebellion took place during which Chinese citizens fought against foreign influence.
Detailed explanation-4: -Overview. Over the course of the nineteenth century, Southeast Asia is colonized by Britain, France, and Holland. In 1799, the Dutch government takes over the Dutch East India Company’s rule of parts of the Indonesian archipelago.