Ottoman Empire Compare And Contrast Essay

In the 19th and early 20th century, the Ottomans and the Qing Dynasty began to go through a period of economic problems. The Ottomans saw a great loss in revenue, as European merchants travelling to Asia who used to bring wealth to them found alternative sea routes. Europeans also began to manufacture cheaper goods, and agreements called capitulations allowed Europeans to evade previously required Ottoman taxes.In Qing China,high population growth was not accompanied with technological advances to keep up with the growth,like the Industrial Revolution in Europe. Also,the bureaucracy could not function properly with the growing population,and there were a multitude of peasant rebellions.These factors led to the decline of the economy in both the Ottoman Empire and the Qing Dynasty.One similarity in how they combated the economic changes was that both set up intense reformation strategies,namely the Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire and the Self Strengthening Movement (in Qing China). However, unlike the Ottomans,who tried to completely Westernize their new system (like Europe’s), the Chinese tried to preserve parts of their old systems.
Both the Ottomans and the Qings came up with well executed reformation strategies to try and combat their

Japan was an isolated nation that had seen little technological innovation from the outside world, and was going through a period of economic downturn as well. It quickly transitioned into a modernized nation through its own reformation, called the Meiji Era. Similar to the Tanzimat and the Self Strengthening Movement, this saw a decrease in corruption, an increase in industrialization, and the incorporation of Western ideas into the system. Japan quickly came in par with all the other modern countries and proved to be a competent independent nation in the global economic