POWERPOINT OUTLINE--SECTION 4, CHAPTERS 26-27:
CHAPTER 26—INDIA, THE ISLAMIC HEARTLAND AND AFRICA
1800-1945
INDIA:
ISLAMIC EMPIRES:
AFRICA:
CHAPTER 27—19TH/20TH CENTURY ASIA, CHINA AND JAPAN
CHINA:
Japan:
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