Unit 20: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Asia & Oceania
Topic 20.7: Challenges to traditional East Asian societies (1700–1868) Questions
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Choose the term that describes foreigners in China being tried under their own country's laws rather than Chinese law, granted under the unequal treaties.
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Choose the leader whose religious visions inspired the founding of the Taiping movement.
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Choose the slogan that expressed samurai anger at the shogunate's forced treaties with foreign powers.
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To what extent was the Second Opium War (1856-1860) simply a continuation of unresolved issues from the First Opium War (1839-1842)?
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Choose the correct dates for the reign of the Qing emperor Qianlong.
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Choose the correct term for the clause in the unequal treaties that automatically extended any privilege granted to one foreign power to all other foreign powers.
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Choose the term for the Chinese merchant guilds through which all Western trade at Canton had to be conducted.
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Examine the reasons for the internal weakening of Qing China in the period 1735 to 1804.
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Evaluate the impact of the Opium Wars on China's relations with foreign powers up to 1860.
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To what extent was the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) a turning point in China's relations with the West?
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Analyse the reasons for the outbreak of the White Lotus Rebellion (1796-1804) and its consequences for Qing China.
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Compare and contrast the impact of Western intervention on two states, each chosen from a different region, in the nineteenth century.
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Discuss the causes of the First Opium War (1839-1842).
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Choose the treaty that first opened Japan to American trade and ended the sakoku policy.
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Evaluate the relative importance of internal decay and external pressure in explaining the crisis of Qing China by 1860.
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Choose the region where the White Lotus Rebellion (1796-1804) primarily broke out.
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Examine the role of the Canton System and the tribute system in shaping China's relations with Britain before 1839.
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Discuss the reasons for the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate by 1868.
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Discuss the view that Qianlong's reign (1735-1796) marked both the peak and the beginning of the decline of Qing China.
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Choose the event that triggered the outbreak of the First Opium War in 1839.
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