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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
 
 
 

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