A brief history from Crash Course on the Han Dynasty. John explains about the Mandate of Heaven and how the Han Dynasty focused on Confucianism.

In the beginning of the 19th century, a new era of interconnectedness had swept the globe, and the term "international" was born. Merchants and travellers navigated the globe, searching for resource-rich lands and gladly alleviating the natives of their abundances, splaying the rapidly industrializing west. China, was this new land where a new trading good would be discovered that would sweep the land would be find.

The overshadowed first Sino-Japanese war is often seen as a stepping stone in the story of japan's imperial expansion and china's decline preceding the second world war. We take a look at the Korean strategry, Meiji restoration of 1868 and Go jong ascension to the throne and how the they played a major role in the beginning of the Sino war

Queen Min escape the royal place as 4,500 Qing soldiers arrived in Korea and captured the deawon reasserting Qing inflince over the kingdom. The Japenese responded only by placing an armed guard on its returning litigation, but this promted Mejij to begin a massive military buildup

The situation was tense. Everyone was upset and two drunken british sailors decided it would be a great idea to pin a chinese solider. Zexu wasn't humored, and demanded a british sailor be executed as atonement. Elliot tried the men responsible on his ship, and sentence them to hard labor back in England but this would kick start the war.