Discuss the experiences of Africans in American society
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Describe the major elements of the Columbian Exchange and analyze the demographic and environmental changes in both hemispheres. Compare the colonial institutions of Spain and Portugal. How do they both differ from the later colonies of France and Great Britain in North America? How did the Catholic Church go about transmitting Christian beliefs to the Amerindians? Why would Las Casas be considered significant and how was his perspective different from typical European attitudes? How important was silver mining to the colonial economies? What about the cash crop of sugar? Analyze which was had a greater impact in global trade and why? Discuss the society of colonial Latin America. How did indigenous peoples get fit into the colonial society? Discuss the experiences of Africans in American society. How does Tupac Amaru II compare to North American reformers like Thomas Jefferson? Analyze the connections between the spread of sugar plantations and the growth of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. How did sugar production affect the technology, environment and demography of the West Indies? Discuss the life of a slave and the extent of slave resistance. Compare to the life of free blacks in the Americas. How was Christianity altered by indigenous and African populations? What syncretic forms emerged? Discuss the role played by Africans traders and political leaders in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Consider Songhai, Hausa and Bornu. What steps did Africans take to control the trade with Europeans and how successful were they? How did the Atlantic Slave Trade compare to the Muslim Slave Trades? Additionally, analyze how these two slave trades affected the culture of Sub-Saharan Africa from 1550-1800. Analyze the coerced labor systems found in the Americas that the colonial economies utilized. Consider chattel slavery, indentured servitude, encomienda and the mita systems. Ch 19 Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies employed by the Ottoman Turks to build an empire. How were they able to “nibble” away at the Byzantine Empire? What specific factors (internal and external) led to the Ottoman Empire to attain a position of near world superiority in religious, political and economic aspects in the 16th century? Why did the Ottoman Empire choose strategic tolerance as opposed to hegemony? How did the Reconquista affect the Ottoman Empire? How did the various ethnic and religious minorities function within the Ottoman Empire? Assess the learning and education in the Ottoman Empire? How did the education system affect the strengths and weaknesses of the empire? How come the Ottoman Empire failed twice in their attempt at sieging Vienna (1529 and 1683)? What was the impact? Hypothesize what may have happened if they were successful? Explain why the Ottoman Empire was experiencing economic problems while at the same time serving as a center of world trade. Analyze slavery in the Ottoman Empire. How does it compare to slavery in the New World? Explain the factors that led to conflicts between the Ottoman and Safavid. How important were geographic factors in the disputes between the empires? Compare Isfahan and Istanbul – consider physical location, terrain, layout, view and treatment of women, demographic analysis. What particular factor led the Mughal Empire to be distinctive compared to that of the Ottoman and Safavid? What methods were utilized by rulers like Akbar to deal with this factor? How would Aurangzeb uproot those methods? How do Akbar, Shah Abbas I and Suleiman compare? What role did Rajputs play in the Mughal Empire? How could they compare to that of the janissaries? How come Sikhism was created during the time of the Mughal Empire? How come it became a major religion of the Punjab region? Analyze both the internal and external reasons for the decline of the Mughal Empire. How does that compare to that of the Ottoman decline? Explain the demographic composition of the maritime worlds of Islam from 1500-1750. Where would the Europeans establish trade contacts in the Indian Ocean Trade Network? What countries in particular and what methods as well as changes over time from 1500-1750? Compare the effects of European expansion on the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Swahili coast. Why was it that Christian missionaries, like the Jesuits, didn’t meet with significant success throughout the Indian Ocean Trade Network? How does their success compare to that of the New World? Where were they most successful in the Indian Ocean basin and why? Ch 20 Explain the relationship between the shogun and the daimyo. How did the relationship evolve during the time 1500-1800? What allowed Japan to become more centralized by the 17th century? Analyze the process. What were the myriad of measures taken by the Tokugawa Shogunate to maintain centralization and how did these policies impact the culture and socio-economics? How come the Ming lost the mandate of heaven and were the Manchus claiming it, significant? Explain the domestic and foreign obstacles that the Manchus of the Qing Empire face as they ruled China? What economic, military and cultural achievements were accomplished under the early Qing? How did it contribute to their success until the late 18th century? What factors contributed to the tripling of China’s population during the 16th and early 17th century? How did the rapid increase in population affect the political and socio-economic institutions? What factors influenced the expansion of Russia’s borders during the time period c. 1500? What factors inhibited them? How did expansion affect their demography? Analyze how Russia transformed from a decentralized state to a centralized empire under the rule of an autocrat? How did geography and environmental factors affect Russia’s trade? Analyze the import/export patterns. How did patterns compare to the Americas? How did Peter the Great influence the social, economic and political, development of Russia? How did different segments of the population react to his reforms? Ch 21 and 22 What European powers engaged in colonial wars against each other? Explain what occurred as part of these conflicts. Analyze the causes of the French Revolution. Compare to the causes of the American Revolution. How and why did the policies of the French Revolutionary regimes change between 1789-1799? Analyze the results of the French Revolution. What catalyst helped to spark the Haitian Revolution? Why? Why are the American, French and the Haitian Revolutions also known as the Atlantic Revolutions? What factors might explain the different outcomes of these revolutions? Describe the effects of the Napoleonic Wars on the political and economic conditions in Europe. What role did geography play in the outcomes of the wars? What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna? To what extent were these goals achieved? In the 19th century, democratic reforms succeeded in the United States and Britain, a nationalist revolution freed Greece from the Ottoman Empire, and a revolution of middle and working class overthrew the French monarchy in 1848. Why were these movements toward democracy and national self-determination successful, while reforms and revolutions ins Hungary, Italy, Bohemia, Austria and Germany failed? What caused the Industrial Revolution and why did it begin in England 1st? Why didn’t it occur contemporaneously in other parts of Europe? North America? How did technological innovations of the Industrial Revolution change the relationship between humans and their environment? Provide examples. How did technological innovations alter the social structure in industrialized countries? How did it affect family life? Analyze the ideological responses to industrialization. Consider and research if needed: Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, Robert Owen, and Michael Sadler. Of these, which one seems most reasonable? Least? Defend your argument. What roles did non-industrialized parts of the world play in the Industrial Revolution? Provide specific examples for Egypt., India and China. How did the Industrial Revolution affect the global trade system? Ch 23 What were the causes of independence movements in Latin America? What spark helped to ignite the movements? Explain what is meant by patriot vs. loyalist. Where would each fit on the political spectrum? Explain how Mexico’s independence was a struggle between patriots and loyalists. How do the events of 1810-1824 set the stage for future instability? How was Brazil’s independence from Portugal unique compared to that of the Spanish colonies? Explain the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the social, economic and political development of the newly independent nations of Latin America. What factors allowed the Roman Catholic Church to play such an important role in the development of Latin America even after independence? How did geography hinder both economic and political progress in some places of Latin America? Analyze the abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Western World. How did immigration patterns change in the 19th century? What were the reasons for these new patterns? Explain a nativist political reaction. Analyze the degree of success of the women’s right movement in Canada, U.S. and Latin America. Compare that to the search for racial justice that emerged after the abolition of slavery. How did industrialization and economic growth affect the social and natural environments of the Western Hemisphere? Think both in terms of developed parts of the hemisphere versus the underdeveloped parts. Ch 24 What factors helped to facilitate the fragmentation of the Ottoman Empire? What factors led to the corruption of the janissary corps and what ultimately led to their dissolution? Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the economic system of the Ottoman Empire during the Tanzimat period. To what extent was this state-sponsored attempt at modernization a success? How would Pan-Slavism affect the Balance of Power in the Balkans (southeastern Europe)? How would the southward expansion of the Russian Empire affect nationalism? On pages 692 and 698, the “Eastern Question” is referred to. What is meant by this and how could it affect the Balance of Power? Analyze the reforms of Alexander II. Compare the reason and outcomes of the Emancipation of the Serfs in 1861 under Alexander II to that of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 by Lincoln. Why would European merchants resent the Canton System? How were Bannerman outpaced by the British military? Compare them to the janissaries and the Russian military during the Crimean War. How did the Treaty of Nanjing change China’s trajectory? Why did the Taiping Rebellion occur? Analyze its impacts. Compare the “State-sponsored” reforms of the following: Muhammad Ali, Tanzimat, Alexander II and the Self-Strengthening Movement of China. Analyze the successes and failures. Which one would you consider most successful? Least? Defend your reasoning. Ch 25 What new African states arose in sub-Saharan Africa between1750-1870 and what was the nature of their politics and interactions? Compare the modernization of Egypt and Ethiopia. How did Africa’s economy transform as a result of the end of the European slave trade? What slave trades still existed? What empires existed in Eastern Africa and how did they interact with the Europeans? Analyze the changes and continuities of European interaction in South Asia from 1600-1885. Compare the British implementation of control measures on India and the 13 colonies. Assess the impact of the Sepoy Mutiny on Great Britain’s control of the peoples of India. How did Great Britain alter its control of India following the Sepoy Rebellion? What impact did these changes have on Indian society? How was the Indian Civil Service an extension of the Zamindari System? How was the Indian National Congress an example of nationalism? What obstacles did it face? How did Australian and New Zealand’s demography and geography impact the ability to establish white settler colonies? What changes were imposed on the indigenous peoples of both colonies? Compare both to the Cape Colony in South Africa. What new labor migrations occurred from 1834-1870 and after? Why? Describe how British industrialization affected each of the following: Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Oceania. Ch 26 Analyze the developments and impacts railroads, steamships, telegraphs and canals. How did they contribute to the Second Industrial Revolution? What impact did these new developments have on the environment? Assess the significance of the migration of Europeans to the Western Hemisphere. What factors influenced Europeans in their decision to migrate? Trace the migration patterns of Europeans to other parts of the world from 1850-1914. What about Asiatic migrations? How would you compare middle class women to working class women in industrial societies? How did life change for some working class women once countries passed protective legislation? Compare Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels views on industrial production with those of Adam Smith (chapter 22). How do the two contradict Smith? Compare the unification process of Italy and Germany. How did the unification of these two countries affect the rest of Europe? Describe the status of the great powers of Europe from 1871-1900. Why did certain countries become world powers while others did not? 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