Examples/Define
Example of a raw material
2022: Iran Protests
(What happened + what enduring issues)
The 2022 Iran protests erupted after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being arrested for allegedly violating Iran's strict dress code for women. The protests quickly grew into a nationwide movement demanding greater freedoms and women's rights, facing a harsh government crackdown with arrests, violence, and internet blackouts.
Enduring Issues: Traditional way of life vs modernization/westernization, abuse of power, human rights violations, Impact of Beliefs, Impact of Government, etc.
What does Geographic Context mean?
Talk about the land/location and how it impacts events. (e.g. Africa/China had a lot of resources that Europeans desired, mountains made Japan isolated, etc.)
Example of a manufactured good
tshirt (from cotton), chair (from wood)
Migration (examples today)
Ukrainian students in Ithaca High School because of the Russia-Ukraine War
How to phrase answer to "cause-effect relationship"
_______ in Document _____, led to ________ in Document _____.
Define: Self-Determination
The desire to be your own country (not be imperialized)
Technology (how it changed other issues e.g. abuse of power, human rights violations, etc.)
Abuse of Power: Technology can make it worse (new/more destructive weapons) but can also lessen it (social media can document when it happens/spread awareness)
Iran Revolution (modern --> Islamic OR Islamic --> modern?)
Examples of no access to clean water today (something that happened in the Ithaca elementary schools a couple of years ago?)
Lead in the water in the Ithaca Elementary Schools - kids couldn't drink fountain water.
Examples of human rights according to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
the right to life, liberty, and security of person, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to work and education
right to life, right to free trial, right to no slavery and torture, right to education, the right to take part in the government, etc.
Communism (goal + associated terms/people)
Goal: classless society, equal distribution of resources
People: Karl Marx
Terms: command economy, NO private businesses, collectivization, bourgeoisie, proletariat
Capitalism (goal + people + associated terms)
Goal: make profit (yes to inequality)
People: Adam Smith
Terms: laissez-faire, private businesses
Long term Causes of WWI: M.A.I.N. (what does it stand for?)
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Meiji Restoration (where + what)
Rapid modernization in Japan (was isolated for 200 years, behind in technology, wanted to be like the West, so they industrialized but needed resources, so imperialized)