The second Industrial Revolution is based on the thesis that industrialization is just one part of a larger process. This process entails modernization during which the culture changes its values, order and even government, which in turn promotes further change. Similar arguments in favor of the Second Industrial Revolution might be found in David Landes´ "The Unbound Prometheus".
The purpose of the Twenty-One Demands was to B. Reduce China to the status of a Japanese Protectorate.
Basically, the 21 demands contains the following demands:
*That the Japanese government would <span>assume Germany's position in Kiaochow.
*That Manchuria and Mongolia be reserved to Japan for exploitation and colonization
*That Japan control the main coal deposits of China
*That the other powers be excluded from further territorial concessions
*That Japan guide China's military, commercial, and financial affairs.</span>
