China pt. 1
The treaty that ended the Second Opium war included how many new treaty ports?
11
Who was one of the primary architects of the "Self-Strengthening Movement"? (He was governor general of Zhili province and imperial commissioner for the Northern Ports.)
True or False:
Medieval scholars thought the world was flat
False
True or False: Albert Einstein was asked to be the President of a nation.
True: In 1952, Edison was asked to be President of Israel.
In what year was the peak of the "Spanish Flu" epidemic?
[Extra Timmons points: Why is it called the "Spanish" flu?]
1918.
We now think it started sometime in 1917 and died down by 1920.
There is no reason to think it began in Spain, but Spain's neutrality meant that journalists weren't restricted in their reporting. This made people think it was particularly bad in Spain.
The trade envoy who refused to kowtow to the Chinese Emperor in 1793 was named Lord _______
Lord George Macartney
Just like the Sepoy Rebellion in India was triggered by a specific event (mutiny around gun cartridges), the "Double Tenth" revolution in 1911 was triggered by protests about what?
Nationalization of railways
What animal is known as the "unicorn of the sea"?
The narwhal
Other than Karl Marx, who is the other author of the 1848 Communist Manifesto?
Friedrich Engels
In what century did the Black Death hit Europe?
14th
Define "extraterritoriality" in the context of the Opium Wars
Exemption from local Chinese laws--instead, the British would be subject to British law
Other than Britain and parts of its Empire (Australia/India), name four nations that participated in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion.
Russia
France
Japan
Germany
USA
Austria-Hungary
Italy
If someone hands you a "blunderbuss", what have you been given?
A short-range, wide-barreled musket (early shotgun)
What was the first city to reach a population of one million people?
Rome, in 5th century BC
If you have "Hanson's Disease", what are you suffering from?
Leprosy
Which five countries established spheres of influence in the "scramble for concessions"?
Japan, Russia, Britain, Germany, France
Sun Yatsen was the first president of the provisional Republic of China, but he agreed to give the position to Yuan Shikai. Why?
The military forces of the RoC were too weak to hold power; they needed the forces led by Yuan Shikai and they needed him to force the Dowager Empress to abdicate (on behalf of the toddler Emperor)
This Greek goddess is a messenger and goddess of the rainbow. Her name is used to describe part of the eye.
Iris
Machu Pichu was constructed by which pre-Columbian empire?
If you have "Consumption" or "wasting disease" in the 1800s, what do you have? It killed one of every seven people in America and Europe in this period.
Tuberculosis
What were at least three of the primary goals of the Taiping rebellion?
Overthrow the Qing, replace Confucianism with Christianity, nationalize land and get rid of social classes, end practices like drinking, smoking opium, foot-binding
What are the three primary arguments of the "Open Door Notes"?
• Western nations won’t interfere with each other
• Chinese get to tax imports too
• Can’t give own nation special deals
Name the following fictional metals:
The material that encases Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back
The material that is controlled and used by Wakanda
The material that makes Frodo's dwarf-made chainmail so strong
Carbonite
Vibranium
Mithril
Rhodesia/ Southern Rhodesia
What is an R0 ("R-naught") value in epidemiology?
[Hint: Measles has an R0 of 18. Polio has an R0 of 7]
The "Basic reproduction number", or the average number of people that any one person will infect.