Migrations and Review

Question 1

usually migrations were due to: Imperialism and Industrialism

Answer 1

• Labor systems – slave, indentured servants
• markets – gold, raw materials, goods, etc.
• famine (Potato Famine)
• population growth
• revolutions
• persecutions (Jews)
• improved technology
• deal with labor systems
• also famines, gold rushes (Australia, Alaska, Canada, California), persecutions…
• end of slavery (Still a need for agricultural workers)
• people who migrated brought culture with them

Question 2

effects of migration

Answer 2

• population shifts (especially in the Americas - over 60 million)
• continued development of racism and prejudices

Question 3

who did well with Imperialism & Industrialism

Answer 3

• England, Americas, Japan

Question 4

who didn’t do well Imperialism & Industrialism

Answer 4

• Spain, Portugal (Spain and Portugal lost empire), Ottoman Empire (gone by end of WWI), China
• Ottoman tried reforms (The Tanzimat Reforms, movement towards a constitutional government) but it failed
• didn’t embrace industrialization
• competition for weapons strong in Europe and the Ottomans were being sold second hand weapons
• Qing dynasty:
• • pushed away western influence
• – Opium Wars
• – Boxer Rebellion
• – China doesn’t have power to stop the west
• dynasty ended with the rise of Sun Yat-sen (1911)
• west was aggressive where the rest were passive (Japan was exception)

Question 5

changes

Answer 5

• 1750-1900: Industrial Revolution
• improvements in technology
• • autocatalytic
• slavery and serfdom abolished
• migrations
• Meiji restoration

Question 6

non-changes

Answer 6

• colonial rule
• elites still in power
• workers still held in low regard
• Africa controlled
• aggressive west
• elites remained in power
• majority of world still rural
• workers still held in low regard

Question 7

population shifts

Answer 7

• population shifts
• 60 million leave Europe for the Americas
• millions leave China and SE Asia
• development of prejudices (The Chinese Exclusion Act)
• white Australian Act of 1901 (to protect the existing white culture)

Question 8

what did the Latin countries contribute to trade following the Industrial revolution?

Answer 8

• agriculture

Question 9

even by 1900, the majority of the world was still ______

Answer 9

• rural

Question 10

one troubling pattern seen often in the process of cultural diffusion due to migrations is the denigration of anyone who isn’t _____

Answer 10

• white
• Christian
• Anglo Saxon

Question 11

_______ played a major role in human migration prior to the 1900s

Answer 11

• Persecutions
• Revolutions
• Improved technology

Question 12

cultural diffusion as a result of migrations spurred the growth of _______

Answer 12

• prejudices