Between 1750 and 1900, the Ottoman Empire and Qing Dynasty of China experienced turbulent times as industrialized European nations extended their political and economic control overseas through imperialism. Both empires resisted economic changes and faced challenges like nationalist revolts and loss of territory to European powers. By the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was seen as weak and the Qing Dynasty struggled against European incursions including the Opium Wars, leading to their eventual collapse in the early 20th century.

1. Ottoman Empire & Qing
Empire
Era of Changes
1750 to 1900

2. IMPERIALISM (1770s-1914)
Industrialized nations (nation-states
of Europe, U.S., Russia, and later
Japan) strengthened their control over
their colonies AND established
transoceanic empires throughout Asia,
the Pacific, and Africa.
Imperialism is this extension of
political and economic control.

3. European Colonies - 1700

4. Industrialized nations control
by 1900

7. Ottoman Empire & Qing
Empire
Era of Changes
1750 to 1900

9. Ottoman Empire & Qing Empire –
the turbulent 19th century

10. Ottoman Empire & Qing Empire –
the turbulent 19th century

11. Ottoman Expansion 1300 - 1600

13. The Battle of Lepanto, 1571

14. Nationalist revolutions &
European advances led to the
Ottoman Empire losing territory
EX. Independence in the Balkans
Semi-Independence in North Africa
Later British influence in Egypt

15. The Decline of Ottoman Rule

16. The Empire became known as "the sick man of
Europe” by Europeans.

18. MANCHU CHINA – the QING
DYNASTY (the last dynasty of China)

22. Qing China produced more goods and held onto
a favorable trade balance into the late 1700s.

26. An example from China- the
Opium Wars 1830s

27. Silver to China!

28. Tea & Silk
from China

30. Opium Warehouse - India

34. BLOCKADE OF FOREIGN
FACTORIES

35. Opium War 1839

37. Treaty of Nanjing

41. THE OPIUM WARS

45. Boxer Rebellion

47. Chinese Rulers sing-along
-to the tune of “Frere Jacques”?
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Sui, Tang, Song
Sui, Tang, Song
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Then comes Revolution
Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong

49. Empires that didn’t strike back!
Qing Dynasty of China (1644 – 1911)
The end of a 4000 years of dynastic
cycles.
Ottoman Empire (1300 – 1918)
600 year old powerhouse fell.

50. CAUSES
In the 1700s, Qing China & the Ottoman
Empire
• Had governments that resisted
economic change & attempted to
maintain pre-industrial forms of
economic production
• Had leadership that underestimated the
growing power of the European nations

51. Empires that didn’t strike back!
CHANGES
• Reforms limited by conservative
elites
• Economy weakened
• Political Rebellions
• European pressure / takeover