Illustrative example (p 120) – Resource export economies
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Illustrative example (p 119) – Resource export economies: Diamonds from Africa
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Illustrative example (p 119) – Resource export economies: Meat from Argentina and Uruguay
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Illustrative example (p 119) – Resource export economies: The Guano Industries in Peru and Chile
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Illustrative example (p 119) – Resource export economies: The Palm Oil Trade in West Africa
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Illustrative example (p 119) – Resource export economies: Rubber extraction in the Amazon and the Congo Basin
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Illustrative example (p 119) – Resource export economies: Cotton Production in Egypt
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beau·ty
noun: beauty; plural noun: beauties
1. a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.
Time lapse of models getting their hair and makeup done to match every decade from 1910 to 2010.
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“The rise of the West from the perspective of the people who DON’T live there”.
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After becoming a concubine (a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives) for Emperor Xianfeng at the age of 16, Cixi rose to power when he died and her young son inherited the throne. She governed China from behind a screen for more than 45 years, and eventually sealed the fate of the Qing Dynasty.
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The Boxer Rebellion was another movement in China that tried to expel foreign powers. It played a key role in the U.S. establishment of the Open Door Policy in China. European powers were attempting to force their way into China just like the U.S.
The boxers, known as the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists were a secret organization in China that did not appreciate the open door policy. Challenges to the Open Door policy would be mounted frequently in the ensuing years, including the Russo-Japanese War; and the “21 Demands” levied by Japan on China in 1915.
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It’s one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. In 1851, the Taiping Rebellion exploded in Qing dynasty China, causing death on an unprecedented scale. Over 14 years of civil war, an estimated 20 million people died, more than were killed in the whole of WWI. It was, simply, the deadliest war of the nineteenth century, and it was all thanks to one man: Hong Xiuquan.
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – New States: Establishment of Independent States in the Balkans
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: 1857 rebellion in India
Illustrative Example (p 118) – Successful Resistance to imperialism
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Rebellions: The Xhosa cattle-killing movement in South Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Rebellions: The Xhosa cattle-killing movement in South Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Yaa Asantewaa war in West Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Samory Touré’s military battles in West Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Túpac Amaru II rebellion in Peru
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The Maxim gun was the first recoil-operated machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884. It has been called “the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest”.
The end of the Civil War allows Mankind to go into overdrive. This is an age of innovation, transformation and mass production. People believe that “Anything, everything, is possible.” Japan goes from feudal society to industrial superpower within 50 years. But progress has its dark side. The demand for rubber devastates Africa. And the desire to build bigger, faster, better leads to a titanic disaster.
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Illustrative Example (p 117) – Non-state to state colonial control: Shift from the private ownership of the Congo by King Leopold II to the Belgium government.
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