Western Asia

between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.” Japan had always felt endangered by western countries when they began to sail and explore Asia in the sixteenth century and did not want strong western powers affecting their culture and social structures. They only opened their coast to the western world when they felt that they would only be able to keep their culture if they allowed for western technology to come into Japan and help it modernize. They began to work more closely…

the United States. By 1890, Japan became the first non-Western country to successfully modernize. Japan’s expansionist policies spread deeper into Asia, specifically into Manchuria and Korea. This incites protests and sends the country into the Russo-Japanese War, a war that Japan goes on to win by a high margin. Beating Russia on both the battlefield and through their naval control, Japan becomes the first non-Western country to beat a Western power. Japanese imperialism continues on to World…

the East”. She did this in studying Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and examining the roles of these regions in trade, production, innovation, and culture. With a discerning eye, Abu-Lughod picked apart existing research, analysis and…

made trade through the Ottoman Empire easier, serving to expedite connections across Western Asia. In Europe, England and the Netherlands chartered the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company respectively. These were joint-stock companies that ventured to the Indian Ocean and had the power to go to war and govern conquered peoples. The companies earned a profit through transit trade within Asia and could therefore purchase Asian spices and textiles without having to pay for…

he is not concerned with the functional, structural, or stylistic coherence of the cultures he describes” (97, Redfield). In regarding the metaphysical, if not imaginary space which fuels the idealized Orient, created through and by the Greek, or Western philosophy, geographically speaking, the division is prevalent in Herodotus’ text, however IV noble savage: does this legitimately apply to the eastern barbarians in Hdt? Are there other, more apposite features found among the Egyptians,…

In terms of partners, due to the region’s remoteness to the western strategic interests, the military involvement from our alliance, the U.S., cannot be guaranteed except for technology and intelligence. Therefore, if under the request from the local authority or under UN’s sanction, Australia should be prepared to…

unselfish one – to establish a special relationship with China, strengthening the region to allow it to turn back the tide of western imperialism." (Document 8) Although Japan and Great Britain seem very different and a world apart, they both had similar experiences becoming industrialized nations and powers in their regions. Japan is an island nation located off the coast of Asia. It enjoys an abundance of fish due…

Silver and sugar were two commodities that had a huge impact across not only the Old World but the New World as well. Whether it was Asia, Europe, Africa, or Spanish America, each one had a global impact on each other along with silver and sugar. There were many similarities in the production, use, and effects of these two goods but there were also many differences. Silver production was referred to as the start of the Commercial Revolution. Like sugar, it was produced in the New World but…

that resulted in the rejection. From my perspective, the idea that China was “isolated” was not totally correct. Instead, the East Asian was actively involved in trading, embraced scientific ideas, and accepted different culture. First of all, East Asia was drastically involved in the trading system, and was even the center of trading during the time before the Macartney Mission. The scale of trading, or say…

I. Introduction -250 This essay is based on the forgotten history of the Indian textiles and the trading connection it made between Britain and South- Asia. In every civilized community there are two industries which are the oldest and most fundamental of all textiles and pottery. (Fraser G, 1948:3) The earliest textiles were made at Mohenjo-Daro, an archaeological site of the third millennium BC on the Indus River. A woven and madder- dyed cotton fragments were found wrapped round a silver…