Question

Timeline
1842 – The Treaty of Nanking is signed between Great Britain and China.

1850 – Civil War Period begins.

1850 – Taiping Rebellion begins.

1856 – Second Opium War fought by China against Great Britain and France begins.

1860 – Second Opium War ends with China’s defeat.

1864 – Taiping Rebellion ends in a Pyrrhic victory for the Qing dynasty because it lost a lot of support from its citizens in the process.

1878 – Civil War Period ends.

1894 – First Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan begins.

1895 – First Sino-Japanese War ends with China’s defeat.

1899 – Boxer Rebellion begins.

1901 – Boxer Rebellion ends.

1911 – Xinhai Revolution begins.

1912 – Xinhai Revolution ends with the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.

Question
Analyze the effect of the Treaty of Nanking on the Qing Dynasty using the timeline. What happened to the Qing Dynasty after the Treaty of Nanking?

Answers
The Qing dynasty faced rebellions and wars after the Treaty of Nanking. These did not lead to its collapse, however.

The Qing dynasty faced rebellions and wars after the Treaty of Nanking. This led to its collapse.

The Qing dynasty faced invasion from Eastern imperialist powers after the Treaty of Nanking. This led to its collapse.

The Qing dynasty did not face anything terrible after the Treaty of Nanking, which made it smug. This led to its collapse.

Answer 1

The second answer is correct.

The Treaty of Nanking (1842) exposed and weakened the Qing—after it the dynasty suffered major internal rebellions (Taiping, the Civil War period) and repeated foreign wars and defeats (Second Opium War 1856–1860, First Sino‑Japanese War 1894–95, Boxer Rebellion 1899–1901). Those accumulated stresses and loss of legitimacy and territory culminated in the Xinhai Revolution (1911–12) and the collapse of the Qing dynasty.