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This 6 page paper discusses the methods Europeans used to bring religion and their influence to China from 1500-1800; the essay uses D.E. Mungello’s book “The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800” as its source. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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how and why this European expansion occurred Discussion In order to understand what happened during this period, its necessary to put in it the larger context of global relations over
history. China is one of the worlds oldest civilizations, and it is cyclical in nature. That is, at certain periods in its history it is prosperous and influential; at
other times it is in decline and largely ignored by other nations. During the period 1800-2000, for example, "China became an outmoded empire that failed to come to terms with
the modern world until it was nearly swallowed by the imperialist powers" (Mungello, 2005, p. 1). At that time, Japan was the dominant nation in Asia, using China as a
source of cheap labor (Mungello, 2005). However, if we examine earlier history, we find that in the period 1500-1800, China was not only the most important nation in Europe,
it was the "greatest nation in the world" (Mungello, 2005, p. 2). At that same time the United States was still a "beautiful wilderness" and Europe was at a low
point in its cycle, as Constantinople fell to the Turks (Mungello, 2005, p. 2). This ushered in two centuries during which Europe was constantly threatened by invasion from the east
(Mungello, 2005). In other words, China was at a high point in its history and Europe at a low; but despite this, there was influence flowing between the two (Mungello,
2005). In fact, there was never a point in history when some sort of influence was not flowing into China, at the same time its influence was felt elsewhere-the amount
and effectiveness of that influence was dependent on the nations status at the time (Mungello, 2005). Influence in this context is usually understood to mean cultural practices. The idea
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