Up until the 1500s, East Asia was mostly 1. rest of the world. However, starting in the 1500s, East Asian countries began to 2. with countries in other parts of the world. This brought them into contact with other 3. .
By the 1800s, China had become 4. because of internal problems. The governments of European countries and Japan 5. large areas of China for exclusive trading
6. . This made Chinese people angry and led to a 7. in China in 1911.
From 1927 until 1949, China was led by a Nationalist leader named 8. . But after many years of civil war, the
9. won power.