This is the practice of not participating in any foreign relations
What is Isolation?
This substance was traded between Britain and China in order for Britain to receive silver and other goods.
What is opium?
What event is most associated with the political cartoon?
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
This is what HIPPE stands for
What is Historical Context, Intended Audience, Point of View, Purpose, and Enduring Issue?
This is the name of your long-term substitute teacher
Who is Mr. Meller?
This is displayed in the document
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This treaty ended the Opium Wars
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
This is the relationship between India and Great Britain before the Sepoy Rebellion
What is a company (The British East India Trading Company) influencing the leaders of India?
The intended audience of the document:
“. . . But after a long period of commercial intercourse [trade], there appear among the crowd of barbarians both good persons and bad, unevenly. Consequently there are those who smuggle opium to seduce the Chinese people and so cause the spread of the poison to all provinces. Such persons who only care to profit themselves, and disregard their harm to others, are not tolerated by the laws of heaven and are unanimously hated by human beings. His Majesty the Emperor, upon hearing of this, is in a towering rage. He has especially sent me, his commissioner, to come to Kwangtung [Guangdong Province], and together with the governor-general and governor jointly to investigate and settle this matter. . . .”
— “Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria” from Lin Zexu (Lin Tse-Hsü), Chinese Commissioner of Canton, 1839
Who is Queen Victoria?
This is the year that Medgar Evers College Preparatory School was founded
What is 1993?
This policy was put into place by the United States when trading with Japan
What is the Open Door Policy/Sphere of Influence?
This action resulted in Britain declaring war on China and starting the Opium Wars
What is the destruction of Opium?
This is one positive impact of British Imperialism in India
What is Centralized Government, Creation of Infrastructure (Roads, Bridges, etc.), Improvements in Education, Advancements in Health and Sanitation, and the spread of new technology?
This is the purpose of the cartoon:
What is to show how westernization has affected the people of Japan?
What is Iced Tea?
These are the two conflicts that resulted from the Meiji Restoration
What is the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War?
This was the failed attempt at overthrowing the Spheres of Influence in China by the Chinese people
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
These are two negative impacts of British Imperialism in India?
What is increased British control, economic policies that favored Great Britain, education focused on British culture, and racial discrimination?
One Enduring Issue present in the document
What is Desire for Power, Conflict, Human Rights Violation, and Inequity?
What is a dog named Henry
This leader also led their country through Westernization in history and is often compared to Japan during the Meiji Restoration
Who is Peter the Great?
This group of individuals led the Boxer Rebellion, as they specialized in martial arts
Who were the Society of Harmonious Fists?
The specific action taken by the British that led to the Sepoy Rebellion
What is the use of animal fat on enfield rifles?
The point of view of the document:
What is the belief that China is weak compared to the might of the Imperial countires?
The number of years Mr. Meller has been teaching at MECPS
What is 6 years?