Across
- 2. Russia VS Japan, fight over Manchuria, drove Russian troops out of Korea, Japan wins
- 5. meeting to decide how to divide up Africa, without any regards for the people living there
- 9. result of China's humiliating defeat at the hands of Britain in the Opium war
- 12. modernization of Japan; Western influence
- 13. the right for foreigners to no follow Chinese rule
- 16. war between Great Britain and China over Opium
- 17. competition for existence, "survival of the fittest"
- 18. U.S. declares China's "doors" to be opened to merchants of all nations
- 19. secret organization of peasants and farmers that wanted to get rid of foreigners
- 20. employed Indian soldiers by the British East India Company
Down
- 1. Europeans considered Africa mysterious, it was largely unknown to them
- 3. invasion/division of African territory by the European powers
- 4. agreement between Japan and Commodore Matthew Perry, Japan opens up trade
- 6. Britain fought China in the Opium War and won this city
- 7. trading system in which a gift had to be presented to the emperor
- 8. British ruling in India
- 10. Japan adds Korea to its territories under forceful control
- 11. an area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges
- 14. a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower
- 15. revolt of soldiers employed by the British East India Company against the company