Module 3. Due March 31
Please read chapter 19, titled “Empires in Collision.”
Similar to the previous chapters, respond to 3 of the sidebar or big picture questions, or to questions about the images in this chapter. Each response should be approximately 200 words and must show evidence of having personally read the chapter. Post your 3 responses to your blog.
After the due date, go back and make thoughtful comments on at least 2 other students’ blog posts.
For your convenience, the sidebar and big picture questions from this chapter are copied below. Remember, you only have to respond to three of them!
1. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of 19thcentury China?
2. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the 19thcentury?
3. Read the Zooming in segment titled “Lin Zexu: Confronting the Opium Trade.” How might Lin Zexu have handled his task differently or more successfully? Had he been given an impossible mission?
4. What strategies did China adopt to confront its various problems? In what ways did these strategies reflect China’s own history and culture as well as the new global order?
5. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the 19thcentury?
6. In what different ways did the Ottoman state respond to its various problems?
7. In what different ways did various groups define the Ottoman Empire during the 19thcentury?
8. In what ways were the histories of China and the Ottoman Empire similar during the 19thcentury? And how did they differ?
9. In what ways was Japan changing during the Tokugawa era?
10. In what respects was Japan’s 19thcentury transformation revolutionary?
11. How did Japan’s relationship to the larger world change during its modernization process?
12. “The response of each society to European imperialism grew out of its larger historical development and its internal problems.” What evidence might support this statement?
13. “Deliberate governmental policies were more important than historical circumstances in shaping the history of China, the Ottoman Empire and Japan during the 19thcentury.” How might you argue for and against this statement?
14. What kinds of debates, controversies and conflicts were generated by European intrusion within each of the societies examined in this chapter?
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