- 0.3 - The Pacific war - The rise of the Japanese Empire
By the start of the 20th Century, Japan had turned from a pre-industrialized isolationist state into a modernized regional power, defeating both the Chinese and Russian Empires, annexing Korea and Tai...
2 Marras 20211h 18min
- 0.2 - The Pacific War - The Meiji Restoration
In the first half of the 19th century, Japan was an agrarian country of tens of millions of rice farmers, a small minority of merchants, who benefited from their hard work, and the elite class of samu...
26 Loka 20211h 5min
- 0.1 - The Pacific War - Imperialism in the East
Once a land of ancient empires and legendary rulers, Asia saw itself turn into a colony of the expanding European powers in the Early Modern period. Drawn to the Asian silk and spice trade, their colo...
18 Loka 202141min
