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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AP 24.817 China Under Imperialism – Boxer Rebellion
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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AP 24.816 China Under Imperialism – Taiping Rebellion
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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AP 24.814 How Europe Colonized Asia (up to 1898)
Before and during INDUSTRIALIZATION
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AP 24.807 Indigenous Responses – Cherokee Nation
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AP 24.806 Indigenous Responses – The Balkans
Illustrative Example (p 118) – New States: Establishment of Independent States in the Balkans
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AP 24.804 Indigenous Responses – India: Under British Rule and Sepoy Mutiny
Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: 1857 rebellion in India
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AP 24.799 Indigenous Responses – The Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement Southern Africa
Illustrative Example (p 118) – Rebellions: The Xhosa cattle-killing movement in South Africa
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AP 24.798 Indigenous Responses – Home Team: The Xhosa People
Illustrative Example (p 118) – Rebellions: The Xhosa cattle-killing movement in South Africa
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AP 24.796 Indigenous Responses – Zulu Pride, Strength, and Resistance
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AP 24.794 Indigenous Responses – Home Team: The Zulu Kingdom
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AP 24.793 Indigenous Responses – Sokoto Caliphate (Nigeria)
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AP 24.792 Indigenous Responses – Home Team: Sokoto Caliphate (Nigeria)
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AP 24.790 Indigenous Responses – Yaa Asantewaa in West Africa
Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Yaa Asantewaa war in West Africa
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AP 24.789 Indigenous Responses – Samory Touré in West Africa
Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Samory Touré’s military battles in West Africa
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AP 24.788 Indigenous Responses – Túpac Amaru II in Peru
Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Túpac Amaru II rebellion in Peru
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AP 24.787 Maxim Gun – The First Machine Gun
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”.
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AP 24.786 Mankind Story (Speed 11)
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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AP 24.784 Africa – Horrors in the Congo
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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AP 24.780 Africa – Berlin Conference
1884-1885
The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, also known as the Congo Conference (German: Kongokonferenz) or West Africa Conference (Westafrika-Konferenz), regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany’s sudden emergence as an imperial power.
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AP 24.777 Imperialism – Driving Motives in the 1800s
As states industrialized during this period, they also expanded their existing overseas colonies and established new types of colonies and transoceanic empires. Regional warfare and diplomacy both resulted in and were affected by this process of modern empire building. The process was led mostly by Europe, although not all states were affected equally, which led to an increase of European influence around the world.
The United States and Japan also participated in this process. The growth of new empires challenged the power of existing land-based empires of Eurasia. New ideas about nationalism, race, gender, class, and culture also developed that facilitated the spread of transoceanic empires, as well as justified anti-imperial resistance and the formation of new national identities.
New racial ideologies, especially Social Darwinism, facilitated and justified imperialism.
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AP 24.776 Imperialism – Social Darwinism (1865-1900)
Social Darwinism –
the application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority.Social Darwinism was an attempt to justify the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots of society.
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AP 24.773 Target Vocabulary for 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
6.1
1. WHITE MAN’S BURDEN 2. SOCIAL DARWINISM 3. COLONIES 4. PROTECTORATES 5. SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
6. SUEZ CANAL 7. MALARIA 8. QUININE 9. MAXIM GUN 10. SETTLER COLONIALISM6.2
1. CONGO FREE STATE 2. COLONY OF THE GOLD COAST 3. FRENCH ALGERIA 4. COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND 5. END OF THE V.O.C.
6. MANIFEST DESTINY 7. QUININE 8. SUEZ CANAL 9. BERLIN CONFERENCE 10. ROOSEVELT COROLLARY6.3
1. INKARRI 2. SEPOY 3. 1853 ENFIELD RIFLE 4. BATTLE OF ADWA 5. WAR OF THE GOLDEN STOOL
6. GHOST DANCE 7. XHOSA CATTLE KILLING 8. MAHDIST WARS 9. LA BORIQUENA 10. CHEROKEE NATION
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