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100
In 1836, the value of the opium smuggled into China reached what amount?
What is $18 million
100
Which American naval officer sailed into the Edo bay, guns blazing, in 1853?
What is Commodore Perry
100
How did King Leopold II intentionally mislead leaders of European nations to support his proposal for a Congo Free State?
What is He promised to promote Christianity and civilization
100
What were some of the fear tactics used by King Leopold II’s army to extract the most amount of rubber?
What is tribal militia as mercenaries for the company; use of tribes known for cannibalism; use of child soldiers for militia (promises of wealth, food, etc.); mutilation of hands.
100
The ‘waves’ of Jewish immigration to Ottoman Palestine are also referred to as this term
What is Aliyah
200
What mid-19th century social movement had armies formed of exactly 13,156 families?
What is the Taiping Rebellion
200
What mid-19th century social movement had armies formed of exactly 13,156 families?
What is Taiping Rebellion
200
What principles did the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885 establish for imperialism in Africa?
What is no single European nation could lay claim to the entire continent; a nation had to establish treaties with local leaders and develop local territories economically
200
In Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, what river were Marlow and the unnamed narrator on in the opening scene of the novella, the part where Marlow ominously remarked, “this too…has been one of the dark places of the earth”?
What is Thames
200
According to the World Zionist Organization, what was the goal of the Zionist movement?
What is –“the creation of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine to be secured by public law”
300
In the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing, what was the name of the crucial provision accorded to Britain that extended to Britain concessions granted by the Qing to all foreign powers?
What is Most favored nation status
300
Which of these was not a provision of the 1856 Harris Treaty?
What is • Extraterritoriality • Military co-operation between Japan and America in Pacific Ocean (THIS IS THE ANSWER) • Opening of trade ports • Fixed tariffs on US goods
300
Leopold’s company gained immense profits over a short period of time, mainly in rubber plantations, leading to suspicions of exploitation of the Congolese people. What were rubber shares valued at in 1892 and in 1903, in francs?
What is 500 francs in 1892 and 15,000 francs in 1903
300
Explain the “elastic” demand for opium in India.
What is price falls> more people wanted to try it (more consumers), did not effect profits (addiction)
300
According to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, what was to be the fate of the ‘brown area’ (essentially modern Israel/Palestine?)
What is it was to be governed by an international administration, the form of which was supposed to be agreed upon by the allied powers after consultation with Russia, other allies *and* the Sharif of Mecca
400
Tan Sitong, the late Qing reformer, made what revolutionary argument?
What is sexual liberation for all
400
In 1907, children were required to have how many years of compulsory education?
What is 6 years
400
Explain at least one cause for the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, and at least one result.
What is Causes: sepoys forced to use fat from cows (sacred to Hindus) and pigs (regarded as filthy by Muslims) to grease rifle cartridges, high tax rates, the incorporation of low-caste soldiers into the army. Results: Britain’s indirect rule of India shifted to a direct rule, Viceroy put in place to manage British affairs in India, direct taxation across territory, and establishment of colonial administration (the Raj).
400
The leaders of the Taiping Kingdom and the proponents of the 1898 “100 Days Reform” both insisted on abolishing what traditional practice?
What is Footbinding for girls and women
400
According to this historian, a nation is “a large-scale solidarity, constituted by the feeling of the sacrifices that one has made in the past and of those that one is prepared to make in the future”
What is Ernest Renan
500
Which two officials, whose edicts appear in our course reader, were key participants in debates on legalizing/prohibiting opium at the Qing court in 1836?
What is Xu Naiji, Zhu Zun
500
Name three ways used to promote the cult of the Meiji emperor.
What is Tours of his domains; promoting his humanitarian image; Shinto promoted as a state religion with public rituals involving the emperor; birthday is national holiday-he is now the father of the nation
500
What was William Bentinck’s strategy before eventually banning sati completely in India in 1929?
What is a cost benefit analysis to a fundamentally moral problem—what is moral vs. what is politically/economically expedient—banning sati in Southern India first, by stereotyping of Southern Indians (said they were more docile, so wouldn’t rise up—trying to avoid another mutiny/revolt)
500
Briefly explain the two sides to the 1853 Debate in Bakufu. Which side was chosen?
What is Somo joe: “revere the emperor, expel the barbarians”, represented by the powerful Mito faction of daimyos and samurai , “buying time” would be a sign of weakness Kaikoku: “open the country”, Isolation will only bring Japan in greater danger; Western powers have become more prominent, without a competent navy there is no way they could defend themselves; so the smart way, is to actually “buy time”; fix shipwrecked vessels, etc.; learn from Western technology; *They went with the Kaikoku position, which lead to the signing of the Harris Treaty of 1858/the Treaty of Amity and Commerce
500
According to Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke, what was the reason for the 1866 war between Prussia and Austria? “the establishment of power.”
What is Austria didn’t lose an inch of territory, but had to cede to the ‘hegemony of Germany’ and the German right to rule the German people.