Community College of Denver: History
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History of World Societies, volume 2, 5th edition,
by John McKay, Bennett Hill and Patricia Ebrey, (P)
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What is nationalism?
What is a nation?
Are you nationalistic?
What would a society that was not nationalistic be like?
What is the role of government?
What should the role of government be?
Why did people come to put their faith in government as a problem solver?
Optimistic- move from pre industrial to industrial should be seen as the history of greater opportunities
Pessimistic - move from pre industrial to industrial is the story of the suffering of the poor - bad housing, lack of sanitation, hopelessness
Medieval cities were crowded, dirty and disease ridden.
What was different about industrial cities?
What did the steam engine do?
Describe the conditions of overcrowding
Describe the unsanitary conditions
Who or what was responsible for the awful conditions?
Who was Edwin Chadwick?
Who was Jeremy Bentham?
What was Chadwick's "sanitary idea"? 811
Compare the miasma theory of disease with the germ theory of disease.
What caused dramatic decreases in death rates from infectious disease?
Population Clusters
When preparing for this class I came across this remote sensing map of city lights observed from space.
What do you think about this image? I was struck by it so I went looking for others and found this one of lights from the whole earth. Here is an animation of population growth of Europe
Perhaps the magnitude of the demographic situations will be clearer from this graph.
With a population of 582 million, Europe comprises about 9% of the world's population. It's land area of 2,193.6 square miles constitutes less than 5% of the world's land area. This gives Europe a population density of 265.1 people per square mile. This is this is the third largest population density after south Asia, east Asia, and southeast Asia.
Here is a map of European population density. Not surprisingly, there is some correlation between population density and major centers of industrialization and this map of environmental issues and this map of soil degradation
For hundreds of thousands of years the human population was growing at a low but steadily increasing rate. Then, in less than 250 years, the world population went from 1 billion to 6 billion people. Why? Because the balance between birth and death has been broken.
United Nations projections show that, in the next 50 years, family planning will be widely used all over the world and birth rate will become universally low. Simultaneously, average life expectancy will reach at least 70 years. Population growth will then start to slow down until it stabilized around the end of the next century.
So why are there so many people? Visit Le Musée de l'Homme 6 billion people exhibit for an online interactive answer.
Of the 79 million persons to be added to world population this year, over 16 million will live in India, about 11 million will be in China, 34 million more will live in the Rest of Asia and Oceania. Over 15 million will be added in Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 8 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 7 million in the Near East and North Africa.
What was the role of public transportation in the overcrowding? and in its solution?
Urbanization and Social Structure
Describe the uneven distribution of wealth
What changes were brought about by the streetcar?
Describe the different strata of the emerging middle class.
Describe the different strata of the working classes.
Describe the leisure activities of the working class.
Describe changing gender roles and family life after 1850
How did child rearing change in this period?
What three significant consequences of the triumph of science and technology does your book describe (starting on page 823)?
Describe Darwin's theory of evolution. how did it affect attitudes toward social development What is social darwinism?
how was nationalism used by governments
What prompted the creation of the Paris Commune in 1871?
How did compulsory elementary education reinforce republicanism in France? What was the effect of the Dreyfus affair?
Why was northern Ireland not included in attempts to establish home rule in Ireland?
Why was Austro-Hungaria torn apart by nationalism when most of the states of western Europe were united by it?
What is socialism?
Why was socialism so threatening to the nation states?
What accounted for the rapidly increasing gap in average income between Europe (led by Britain) and the Third World starting around 1830?
How did railroad construction in Africa, Asia, and Latin America facilitate the economic growth of Europe and the US at the expense of the countries being exploited?
What other innovations took place in transportation and technology that facilitated the growth of international trade?
Where were the profits from international trade invested in the early 20th C?
Explain how England used opium to open trade with China.
How did the US open commercial relations with Japan?
How did the proportions of European population to world population change from 1850 to 1930?
Describe the pattern of European emigration. To what places did they immigrate?
What factors influenced whether immigrants returned home?
What were the "great white walls"?
What was the pattern of overseas Chinese in European colonies?
Contrast Western Imperialism between 1880 and 1914 with their empire building between 1816 and 1880.
Explain the several causes of the new imperialism identified by your authors?
What were J. A. Hobson's criticisms of imperialism.
What were other criticisms of imperialism?
How did the anti-imperialists in occupied countries draw strength from Western culture?
Why did other European powers protect the Ottoman Empire from France and Egypt in 1839?
Why did the Tanzimat reforms fail in the Ottoman Empire?
What changes did Muhammad Ali institute in Egypt?
Explain how Ismail Ali lost political control of Egypt to Europe in the 1879's
Do you see a parallel between General Evelyn Baring's (Lord Cromer) and Britain's model for European expansion in densely populated lands based on military force, political domination and a self-justifying ideology of beneficial reform and George Bush Jr.'s current planned invasion of Iraq? Why or why not?
Why did US slave population continue to grow after the importation of slaves was banned in 1808?
What was the role of palm oil in ending the slave trade?
Describe the European invasion and occupation of Africa from 1880-1900.
How were African economies structured to favor the European occupiers?
Give examples of racism under European imperial rule.
How were the British able to rule India?
What was the "Culture System" used by the Dutch to expand their control of Java to include most of the "East Indies"
Why was Siam never conquered by a European power?
Describe the changes made to Japan in the Meiji Restoration.
How did China escape direct foreign rule?
The Opium War - opening China to European Empires
The Boxer Rebellion the US gets into the Act
