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REGISTRATION FOR THE AP EXAM IS THIS WEEK (Tues, Wed, and Thurs) IN 115N - See Mr. Fedeli
FEE IS $87
Tuesday, March 13
Aim: Compare and contrast the Meiji Restoration with the Chinese Self Strengthening Movement.
REVIEW BOOK - CHAPTER 17 PP 279-285
1. Outline the key concepts found on p279
2. Identify key terms
3. Identify the role of each
Selim III
Saud Family
Muhammed Ali
Mahmud II
Abdul Mejid
Read AP Tip p. 283 - identify the impact of these reforms on women.
Read AP Tip 2 p.285 - How was the experience of the Ottoman Empire similar to that of Latin America in the 19th century?
Work on practice multiple choice questions
Bring book to class
Wednesday, March 14
Aim: Evaluate the reform movements in the Ottoman Empire
Review book Chapter 18 pp.293-296
1. Outline Key concepts 1 and 2
2. Review AP Tip on p 296 - How will nationalism impact on Britain's colonies?
1857 The Great Rebellion or The Sepoy Mutiny? Watch Video
- Why is the bureaucracy the British created to control India considered impressive?
- Why did the British allow the Indian National Congress to start meeting?
- Evaluate the new power of British Empire after the defeat of the French in India, North America, and Europe in 1763.
Thursday, March 15
Aim: Finished Ottoman Empire
What factors contribute to Indian nationalism?
HW: Text book : Indian Responses to Empire 950-960
Read Doc20.1 The Wonders of Calcutta
1.What does this document reveal about Nawab Muhabbat Khan towards the British in Calcutta? Defend your answers using examples from the document
Read Doc20.2
Read "Seeking Western Education"
2.Why was Roy opposed to the creation of this school?
3.What does this letter reveal about Roy's attitude towards Indian and European culture?
Read The Indian Rebellion: The Azamgarh Proclamation 1857
4. What grievances do the population have against British rule?
5. To what group or classes of people was the proclamation directed? What classes were left out? Why?
6. Compare this document to Roy's vision of India.
Read the Credits and Debits of British Rule in India
7. According to Naroji, what are the chief advantages and disadvantages of British rule?
8. Compare his view to that of Roy and The Azamgarh Proclamation
Read Gandhi's Indian Home Rule
9.What is Gandhi's fundamental criticism of British rule in India?
10. How doe Gandhi's concept of civilization differ from the British?
11. What kind of future does Gandhi seek for his country?
Overview of the documents
12. What different understandings of colonial rule are reflected in these documents?
13. In what ways do these understandings change over time?
14. How might you account for these changes over time?
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Monday, March 19
Aim: How did the British impact on India?
HW:Read 923--928
- What factors shaped he colonial experience in Asia and Africa?
- How did the second wave of European conquests differ from that of the 16th and 17th centuries?
- What were considered the "informal empires"? Why was this preferred?
- What advantages did the west have?
- Describe the passage to colonial status in each of the following regions - India and Indonesia in comparison to Sub-Sahara Africa and Southeast Asia
- How did the patterns of colonization differ in Australia and New Zealand?
- How did some of these regions relationship with the Western powers contribute to their collapse?
- Why was incorporation under European rule so traumatic?
- Why might subject people choose to cooperate with the Imperial power?
- What might prompt them to resist or rebel?
Tuesday, March 20
Aim: Why did both Hindus and Muslims unite against British imperialism?
HW: Read pp.941-94
Believing and Belonging: Identity and Cultural Change in the Colonial Era
- What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?
- Why did Keshub Chunder Sen praise Britain?
- Why were many of the newly educated western elite disappointed under colonialism?
- What were the attractions of Christianity within some colonial societies?
- How and why did Hinduism emerge as a distinct religious tradition during the colonial era in India?
- How did this contribute to a growing sense of a separate identity for Muslims in India?
- In what ways were race and tribe new identities in colonial Africa?
- Explain the quote"Europeans believed Africans belonged to tribes, Africans built tribes to belong to"
- Reflections - Who makes history? Explain the philosophy of "History from below". How was this expressed in the work "The World the Slaves Made"
- What is Karl Marx's point of view?
Wednesday, March 22
Aim: What are the advantages and disadvantages of British rule in India?
Power point to Review
HW Read pp. 931-940
- What was distinctive about European colonialism in the 19th century? identity examples from the reading
- Where was segregation most pronounced in the colonies?
- Why do you think the Europeans had a penchant for classification?
- how did imperialism change the nature of work?
- Describe the forced labor that emerged in the Belgian Congo under Leopold II.
- How did the Dutch in Indonesia exploited their workers under the "Cultivation System"? How did it benefit the Dutch?
- How did the powers of the states transform the economic lives of their colonial subjects?
- Fill in the Chart
- 9. What problems emerged in the success of cash crop economies?
- 10. What kind of wage labor were available in the colonies? Why might be people take part of it? How did doing so change their lives?
- 11. How were the lives of African women altered by colonial empires?
- 12. Did colonial rule bring "Economic Progress" in its wake? Defend your answer
Thursday, March 22
Aim: Describe the Scramble for Africa.
HW: Read Review Book pp.266-273
1. Outline Key concepts p266
2.Complete Terms
3. Compare and contrast the causes and effects of Old Imperialism in Africa with New Imperialism in Africa
Friday, March 23
Aim: Review Imperialism in Africa -
HW: Bridging World History
Part 1 - King Leopold II - Congo - Watch Video: King Leopold's Ghost (Excerpt)
Answer Questions:
- Why was there a world wide rubber boom at the end of the 19th century?
- How was rubber extracted? Why was this type of work so difficult for the indigenous people? (Red Rubber Terror)
- Describe the impact the rubber industry had on the people of the Congo?
- Who were the victims of this industry? Why?
Part 2: Read Handout from Bridging World History -Questions follow Handout
Part 3: Watch Video - provides review on key terms of imperialism (Scroll down on the left VOD) (Start at 10:46 on Video)
No questions on China and Japan but this is very helpful for review on test Tuesday! So if you have time to watch it I recommend all of it
Film Questions:
1. How does South Africa illustrate the new imperialism?
2. How did the Boers differ from the Koi Koi in terms of private property?
3. Why did the Boers flee in the 1800s and head north 1835-1841?
4. How did the Great Trek impact on the Zulus?
5. What ecological events occurring in this region simultaneously? How did this lead to more violence? Why was this referred to this as the Mfecane?
6. Why was South Africa so important to the British Empire?
7. How did mining change for Africans? What impact would the Pass Laws have on South African blacks?
8. (1867- diamonds & 1885 gold) How would this change Southern Africa?
PBS: Kashmir
BBC - The Partition
TEST ON CHAPTER 19 AND 20 counts as 2 exams (Tuesday, March 27)
Review Book - Chapter 16-20 - Review the multiple choice questions from each chapter
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