The correct option is C
The nineteenth century represents a turning point for the history of China and Japan with the arrival of Western powers in Pacific waters. Although the circumstances of both countries were very different, figuratively we could say that in the second half of the nineteenth century China lost the train of modernity due to its slow economic growth while Japan climbed quickly to the development plane.
Japan and contact with the West; At first they had had contact with some merchants from Holland, Russia and Great Britain. It was not until 1853-1854 with the Kangawa Treaty, and the US imposition. Through the military Matther Perry, that Japan opened its ports with commercial sights. All this caused a crisis in their traditional feudal structures, and a population that felt humiliated.
A. European imperialist powers gained further control of trade with China.
The correct answer should be Advances in Technology and Industrial revolution
Mexican-American war happened in the 40s so that's before 1860, while a war with Spain occurred in 1898 which is after the mentioned period. They did advance in technology exactly due to the industrial revolution. An agrarian revolution. An agricultural revolution didn't happen in the US because of the Long depression that slowed it all down.
The correct options are: A - C -E
Compared with the American War of Independence, where nothing similar was experienced, the loss of life and the material destruction of the conflict during Spanish-American independence was extremely greater.
Indeed, it was not only a war for independence (as in the case of the United States), but there were circumstances that added to the fierceness of the struggle, including the enormous territorial extension of the war, which included the almost all of Latin America, the politics of terror practiced by both sides, the alternation of victories and defeats between the supporters of independence and those loyal to royal authority (called patriots and royalists, respectively), the exile and displacement of populations and the prolongation in time of the struggle that produced a complete ruin in many of the cities and fields of Spanish America, the loss of capital and goods of all kinds after the paralysis of trade and productive activities, and the dedication of material resources and humans to the war effort. All this in the context of a war that quadrupled the duration of the American
