Week 8

Question 1

Agency

Answer 1

Ability to act and make choices (Indigenous people had agency in contrast to depictions and writing)

Question 2

Yellow River and Yangtze River

Answer 2

Rivers in China, civilization revolved around these rivers to grow millet and rice

Question 3

Mandate of Heaven

Answer 3

Justification of Chinese ruling made in the Zhou Dynasty
- Qin Shi Huang, Named himself an Emperor
- Emperors rule everything under Heaven

Question 4

Dynasties

Answer 4

-Han Dynasty after Qin
- Qing is the last Dynasty, replaced by Republic of China then replaced by People’s Republic of China

Question 5

Forbidden City

Answer 5

Palace complex in Beijing

Question 6

Matteo Ricci

Answer 6

First European to see the Forbidden City

Question 7

Manchus

Answer 7

• Use of cavalry, helped in conquering central Asia
• Product of social change
• (technological advancements second most helpful)

Question 8

Zunghar/Dzungar Genocide

Answer 8

• carried out by Qin forces when conquering Asia

Question 9

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Answer 9

-Purged capitalism and traditional cultures

Question 10

Han

Answer 10

• idea of plural singularity

Question 11

Xinjiang

Answer 11

• Region in China
  -Uighurs, Turkish/ Muslim group of people live here
• oppressed by Gov. since they do not comply to ideas of plural singularity

Question 12

Autronesian

Answer 12

Native to Taiwan

Question 13

Dutch East India Company

Answer 13

• Arrived to establish trade/ military base
• fought with Chinese and Han people
• eventually turning Taiwan into their colony

Question 14

Taiwan Miracle

Answer 14

Rapid industrialization and Growth
- became one of the 4 Asian tigers (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South K)

Question 15

Andaman Islands

Answer 15

• Jarawas and Sentinelese (native to the island)
• Opium and Alcahol spread, de-popularized the island
• now protected by government (after years of rebelling)
• John Allen Chau killed by Sentinelese

Question 16

China and Taiwan colonization contrast

Answer 16

• China slow and incremental of neighbours over time
• Taiwan: colonizers to colonized

Question 17

Spanish Empire

Answer 17

15th-19th C
-Catholic Empire
- Colonized South America, Spanish and Catholicism today

Question 18

Bartolome de las Casas

Answer 18

• The Destruction of the Indes
• Described the mistreatment of Indigenous people, sent to Prince of Spain
• Supported colonization but not mistreatment of Indigenous peopel

Question 19

Aztec empire

Answer 19

• Domesticated many small states
• forms triple alliance (with Texoco and Tlacopan) to colonize/ control area
• Tenochititlan (Aztec)

Question 20

African Slave Trade

Question 21

Hernan Cortez

Answer 21

• Led Spanish Conquistadors, Helped smaller groups to conquer the Aztecs

Question 22

Agta/ Aeta

Answer 22

Natives to Philippines
- dealt with slavery much before Spanish
- Slave trade turned into colony,
- failed to expand slave system so spanish brought in African slaves

Question 23

Pequot War

Answer 23

• Indigenous war with English Colonizers precursor to King Philip’s war

Question 24

Pequot War lessons (3)

Answer 24

1- do not rely on British Promises or commitments
2- British Military tactics have little mercy or compassion (total assaults)
3- Indigenous weapons and tactics were often ineffective against British Hardware and bloodthirstiness

Question 25

Mapuche War

Answer 25

- Resitance against Spanish colonization from Mapuche - (fought against Incas who tried to turn them into slaves previously)

Question 26

Anglo-Zulu War

Answer 26

- fight in Africa, Zulu's overwhelming British and won - British lost first invasion with less technology

Question 27

Chief Joseph

Answer 27

-"I am tried of fighting" line - showing how victory often leads to wearing down of forces after repeated attacks

Question 28

Why some indigenous interact differently?

Answer 28

- Little Logic between some Indigenous people had extreme distancing or violent aggression - others had remoteness to stay away

Question 29

Ainu

Answer 29

-Conquered by Japan - tried to Conquer China/ Mongolia - (Native to Hokkaido) - Slowed but did not stop the Japanese

Question 30

Maori

Answer 30

- Hostile to settlers - Boyd Massacre attack on Boyd Ship - Made Treaty of Waitangi (peace treaty, rights of British subjects, got poperty rights etc all for British soverignty

Question 31

North American Fur Trade

Answer 31

- search for furs led to travel to NA - mixing of cultures - Birth of Metis - set stage for NA colonialzation -Relationship eroded in western expansion

Question 32

Serbia

Answer 32

- Russia took over by extending fur trades - Imposed Yasak Tax, commercial fishing and reindeer herding

Question 33

Basho Contracting System

Answer 33

Trading system - Ainu trading with Japanese (who taxed them unfairly) - taking of Ainu lands and importing diseases

Question 34

White Man's Burden

Answer 34

- Made by Rudyard Kipling - discussing the duty to "bring up colonies"