Asia and Pacific -1750 -1900 ( மத்தேயு பெர்ரியின் நீராவி மூலம் இயங்கும் போர்க்கப்பல்கள் 1853 ஆம் ஆண்டில் எடோ நவ் டோக்கியோ துறைமுகத்திற்கு வந்து சேர்ந்தது, இது ஒரு இராணுவ நிலைப்பாட்டை பாதுகாக்கும் நோக்கத்தில் இருந்தது.)

MATTHEW PERRY'S steam powered warships arrived in the harbor of Edo now Tokyo ,in 1853 ,intending to secure a military foothold.Japanese artists commented nonverbally.

British domination in India dated to the 1700s,when the East India company established forts and trading posts. India's once mighty Mughal (Mogul) Empire-founded in the early 1500s by Babur, a Muslim conqueror of Turkish and Mongol ancestry. leaving local rulers to contend with the British.

In 1757 British forces ousted the ruler of Bengal, who was accused of killing British Prisoners by confining them to a dungeon in Calcutta called the Black Hole and replaced him with a compliant ruler. setting a precedent for the takeover of other Indian  states. In 1857 the British Army put down a mutiny by Indian troops called sepoys and imposed direct imperial rule. India provided britan with cotton and other raw material and served as a market for British manufactured goods such as cotton fabric ,exported to India in such quantity that its native textile industry withered. 

Among the items British traders exported from India was opium, which was then sold illegally in China When Chain'a tried to halt that trade in 1839 ,British gunships intervened and crushed the antiquated Chinese fleet, forcing China to sign a treaty legalizing the opium trade and granting Britain control of Hong Kong.

This blatant exercise of imperial power came as a humiliating blow to China's own emperor ,whose Qing dynasty had supplanted the Ming dynasty in the 17th century when Manchurian invaders called Manchus took power. The Manchus were further discredited in 1900 by the Boxer Rebellion, an uprising against foreigners that ended When foreign troops intervened. With China debilitated, European powers were free to occupy southeast Asia. Britain took Burma and Malaysia, France claimed indo china, and the Dutch expanded their control over the East Indies.

Japan escaped foreign domination by becoming an imperial power itself .shocked when an American fleet entered Tokyo Bay (Known then as Edo Bay) in 1853 to demand access ,the Japanese restored imperial rule under Emperor Meiji and modernizer their society by industrializing and building powerful armed forces that defeated China in 1895 and occuoied Taiwan and other territories.