POWERPOINT  OUTLINE--SECTION  4,  CHAPTERS  26-27:

CHAPTER 26—INDIA, THE ISLAMIC HEARTLAND AND AFRICA
1800-1945
 
INDIA:

• Origins of British Rule in India and the British East India Company
• Nature of East India Rule in India
• 1857-1858:  Sepoy Rebellion
• 1858-1947:  Direct British Rule over India--Raj
• Indian Political Resistance—National Congress, Hindu Nationalists & Muslims
• Indian Partition and Independence

 
ISLAMIC EMPIRES:

• Decline of Islamic Empires—Mughal, Ottoman, & Safavid in 18th & 19th Centuries
• Islamic Response:
• Adaptionist Reform:  Muhammad (Egypt) & Tanzimat Reforms (Ottoman Empire)
• Integrative:  Jamal al-Din al-Afghani & “Pan-Islamism”
• Conservative:  Reject the West—Wahhabi Movement

 
AFRICA:

• The Mfecane, 1815-1840
• Shaka & Zulus
• Afrikaner States
• Islam
• Scramble for Africa
• Africa Resistance—Decolonization
  

 
 
CHAPTER 27—19TH/20TH CENTURY ASIA, CHINA AND JAPAN
 
CHINA:

• First Opium War (1839-1842)
• Treaty of Nanjing
• Second Opium War (1856-1860)
• Rebellions—Hong Xiuquan & Taiping Rebellion; Nian Rebellion; Muslim Rebellions
• “Self-Strengthening” Movement
• Empress Dowager and Governor-Generals
• Chinese Foreign Relations—Mongolia, Vietnam & Korea
• Western Encroachment in China and the Boxer Rebellion (1900)
• Revolution of 1911—End of Empire (Manchu Dynasty)
• Republic of China, 1912-1949—Sun Yat-Sen
• Communist Revolution, 1949—Mao Zedong

 
Japan:

• Contact with the West—Commodore Perry, 1853
• Internal Conflict and fall of the Tokugawa
• Rise of the Meiji state
• Westernization of Japan
• Japan’s Rise as a World Power
• 1920s, Parliamentary Japan
• 1930s-1940s, Warlords and World War II