DIRECTIONS – Take notes! Do not rush through the 6 steps below! ALSO- MOVIE TIME for #7!
Contents
1.
Know what is your AP focus (objective). Go to your Unit Guide For APWH – p. 117. Review Using the Unit Guide.
2. TIME MAP
Europe 1871 CE Nationalism and industrialization continue to transform Europe.
- Britain 1871 CE – The British empire has expanded vastly under Queen Victoria.
- USA 1871 CE – The USA has experienced the bloody American Civil War.
- France 1871 CE – France has been defeated in a war with Prussia.
- Germany 1871 CE – Prussia has united the German states within the new German Empire.
- Italy 1871 CE – After many difficulties Italy has become a united country.
- Greece and the Balkans 1871 CE – Greece has won its independence from the Ottoman empire.
- Ottoman 1871 CE – The Ottoman empire is continuing to modernize itself.
- East Asia: China, Korea, Japan 1871 CE – East Asian history has taken a radically new direction as Western powers force open the doors of China and Japan to trade and missionary activity.
- National Geographic – Interactive Mapping
- COUNTRY SIZE COMPARISON
3.
- Ch 13 (p. 388-393) (the whole chapter, the whole enchilada).
- Use the following resource: Textbook Reading Guidelines
4.
Video | Content | Historical Thinking Skills |
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1st Video | examine the expansion of states into new territories in Africa and Asia | 4B – explain how historical development is situated within a broader historical context. |
2nd Video | examine methods of state expansion in the period 1750 to 1900 | 4B – explain how a historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context |
5.
In this video Heimler looks at the imperial state expansion going on across the world.
In the Scramble for Africa, European nations competed to carve up the continent into colonial holdings.
In China, western powers practiced economic imperialism by carving it up according to spheres of influence.
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7. Movie Time! Watch and enjoy the following:
Zulu
The Naked Prey
Gunga Din
A Passage to India
The Young Victoria
Victoria and Abdul
The Dead Lands
The above movies may contain adult material so be sure to watch them with your parents or guardian. Also, be sure to focus on the visual and cultural interpretations that the movies offer (but be wary and skeptical of the over dramatization, ethnocentrism, and historical inaccuracies that the movies may also contain).
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