Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0531 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Japan's Meiji Turn and China's Boxers
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The idea
Japan and Russia fought; Britain and Russia nearly fought over central Asia in the Great Game; the powers and the United States claimed spheres of influence in China, where the Boxers, an anti-foreign secret society, rose. Japan's Meiji Restoration of eighteen sixty-eight began its industrialization.
In practice
The shogunate ended.
Where people slip
Japan then built its own empire in Korea.
Your place on the trail
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