The responses of China and Japan to Western Imperialism were similar in several significant respects. Each nation, for centuries, successfully held back Western incursions into their territories and economies. Both China and Japan were ultimately able to maintain this policy of isolationism until the 19th century, when each finally succumbed to external pressures, though to differing degrees
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George Washington, I hope this helps. :)
I believe this act allowed for the legal extraction of guano from Pacific islands for their rich phosphate content for fertilizer and gunpowder. Alexander von Humboldt first publicized the value of guano as having like 50 times the phosphate of other phosphate deposits when he sent samples of it from Peru to Europe..