Ch. 19

As Europe was growing with all its overseas empires, other countries wanted to mimic their kind of success. One country who tried to expand as the Europeans did was China. China failed to grow like Europe and cause itself to have a huge peasant population, smaller farms, unemployment, impoverishment, misery, and starvation. China's failed attempt to evolve with its growing population caused it to not preform functions like tax collection, flood control, social welfare, and public security. This is a very big issue, if you can't provide for a community, eventually they will self-implode. Peasant rebellions lead by Hong Xiuquan called for a total reformation of China. His acts influenced "abolition of private property, a radical redistribution of land, the end of prostitution and opium smoking, and sexually segregated military camps of men and women". With Hong, China was becoming an industrial nation. With demands that help the community at large.