Japan and Thailand
*Learned from the West. Sent other people to study the West.
*Invited Western experts to aid in development.
*Had strong Central governments.
*Had well-organized bureacracies.
*Adopted Western business and banking methods.
*Built railroads
*Improved ports
*Developed industry. Factories became organized into monopolies.
*Introduced social reform
Other Asian Nations
*Resistede Western Influence
*Western experts came in to represent Western companies.
*Had weak governments
*Faced power struggles within governments.
*Western investors contolled economies.
*Westerners built and owned railroads.
*Westerners developed and controlled ports.
*Economies depended on one crop or resource.
*Retained old social syxtems
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