5th Six Weeks

Question 0

The Eastern Question

Answer 0

The “Eastern Question”, in European history, encompasses the diplomatic and political problems posed by the “Sick man of Europe” (the Ottoman Empire), as it steadily weakened decade after decade.

Question 1

Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony, 1750-1914

Answer 1

1700 C.E.
•1730-1850: Population boom in Western Europe
•1770: James Watt’s steam engine; beginning of Industrial Revolution
•1776-1783: American Revolution
•1786-1790: First British reforms in India
•1788: Australian colonization begins
•1789-1815: French Revolution and Napolean
•1798: Napolean’s invasion of Egypt

1800 C.E.
•1805-1849: Muhammad Ali rules Egypt
•1808-1825: Latin-American wars of independence
•1815: Vienna settlement
•1815: British annexation of Cape Town and region of Southern Africa
•1823: Monroe Doctrine

1825 C.E.
•1825-1855: Repression in Russia
•1826: New Zealand colonization begins
•1830, 1848: Revolutions in Europe
•1835: English education in India
•1838: Ottoman trade treaty with Britain
•1839-1841: Opium War between England and China
•1839-1876: Reforms in Ottoman Empire
•1840: Semiautonomous government in Canada
•1846-1848: Mexican-American War
•1848 ff.: Beginnings of Marxism

1850 C.E.
•1850-1864: Taiping rebellion in China
•1853: Perry expedition to Edo Bay in Japan
•1854-1856: Crimean War
•1867: Union of central and eastern Canada
•1858: British Parliament assumes control over India
•1860-1868: Civil strife in Japan
•1861: Emancipation of serfs in Russia; reform era begin
•1861-1865: American Civil War
•1863: Emancipation of slaves in U.S.
•1864-1871: German unification
•1868-1912: Meiji (reform) era in Japan
•1870: Establishment of Japanese Ministry of Industry
•1870-1910: Acceleration of “demographic transition” in Western Europe and the United States
•1870-1910: Expansion of commercial export economy in Latin America
•1871-1912: High point of European imperialism

1875 C.E.
•1877-1878: Ottomans out of most of Balkans; Treaty of San Stefano
•1879-1890s: Partition of West Africa
•1882: British takeover of Egypt
•1884-1914: Russian industrialization
•1885: Formation of National Congress Party in India
•1886-1888: Slavery abolished in Cuba and Brazil
•1890: Japanese constitution
•1890s: Partition of East Africa
•1894-1895: Sino-Japanese War
•1895: Cuban revolt against Spain
•1898: Formation of Marxist Social Democratic Party in Russia
•1898: Spanish-American War; U.S. acquires the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii; U.S. intervenes in Cuba
•1898-1901: Boxer Rebellion in China

1900 C.E.
•1901: Commonwealth of Australia
•1903: Construction of Panama Canal begins
•1904-1905: Russo-Japanese War
•1905-1906: Revolution in Russia; limited reforms
•1908: Young Turk rising
•1910: Japan annexes Korea
•1911-1912: Revolution in China; of empire
•1914-1918: World War I