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Treaty of Shimonoseki Fact-Matching Game

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About This Challenge

This fact-matching game allows players to piece together important information fragments, similar to how the Treaty of Shimonoseki (221 BCE) pieced together different elements to create a historical agreement.

  • Players can use spells for hints
  • Players can use spells for extra time
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  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed in 1895 between Japan and the Qing Dynasty of China.
  • The treaty ended the First Sino-Japanese War.
  • Under the treaty, China recognized the independence of Korea.
  • China ceded Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
  • China also had to pay a large indemnity to Japan as part of the treaty.
  • The treaty was signed in the city of Shimonoseki in Japan.
  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki was one of the unequal treaties forced upon China by Western powers.
  • The treaty marked the first time that Japan had extracted territorial concessions from China.
  • The signing of the treaty led to widespread anti-Japanese sentiment in China.
  • The treaty also led to the Triple Intervention by Russia, France, and Germany, which forced Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula to China.
  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki marked a turning point in East Asian power dynamics.
  • The treaty was a significant victory for Japan and established it as a major regional power.
  • The treaty was followed by the Boxer Rebellion in China, which sought to expel foreign powers from the country.
  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki marked the beginning of Japan's imperial expansion in East Asia.
  • The treaty was one of a series of treaties that marked the decline of the Qing Dynasty in China.
  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki was later nullified by the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905, which ended the Russo-Japanese War.
  • The treaty had long-lasting consequences for the relationship between Japan and China.
  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki is considered a key event in the history of modern East Asia.
  • The treaty reshaped the power dynamics in the region and set the stage for further conflict in the 20th century.

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