Week 8 Flashcards
Agency
Ability to act and make choices (Indigenous people had agency in contrast to depictions and writing)
Yellow River and Yangtze River
Rivers in China, civilization revolved around these rivers to grow millet and rice
Mandate of Heaven
Justification of Chinese ruling made in the Zhou Dynasty
- Qin Shi Huang, Named himself an Emperor
- Emperors rule everything under Heaven
Dynasties
-Han Dynasty after Qin
- Qing is the last Dynasty, replaced by Republic of China then replaced by People’s Republic of China
Forbidden City
Palace complex in Beijing
Matteo Ricci
First European to see the Forbidden City
Manchus
- Use of cavalry, helped in conquering central Asia
- Product of social change
- (technological advancements second most helpful)
Zunghar/Dzungar Genocide
- carried out by Qin forces when conquering Asia
Chinese Cultural Revolution
-Purged capitalism and traditional cultures
Han
- idea of plural singularity
Xinjiang
- Region in China
-Uighurs, Turkish/ Muslim group of people live here - oppressed by Gov. since they do not comply to ideas of plural singularity
Autronesian
Native to Taiwan
Dutch East India Company
- Arrived to establish trade/ military base
- fought with Chinese and Han people
- eventually turning Taiwan into their colony
Taiwan Miracle
Rapid industrialization and Growth
- became one of the 4 Asian tigers (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South K)
Andaman Islands
- 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
China and Taiwan colonization contrast
- China slow and incremental of neighbours over time
- Taiwan: colonizers to colonized
Spanish Empire
15th-19th C
-Catholic Empire
- Colonized South America, Spanish and Catholicism today
Bartolome de las Casas
- The Destruction of the Indes
- Described the mistreatment of Indigenous people, sent to Prince of Spain
- Supported colonization but not mistreatment of Indigenous peopel
Aztec empire
- Domesticated many small states
- forms triple alliance (with Texoco and Tlacopan) to colonize/ control area
- Tenochititlan (Aztec)
African Slave Trade
Hernan Cortez
- Led Spanish Conquistadors, Helped smaller groups to conquer the Aztecs
Agta/ Aeta
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
Pequot War
- Indigenous war with English Colonizers precursor to King Philip’s war
Pequot War lessons (3)
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
Mapuche War
- Resitance against Spanish colonization from Mapuche
- (fought against Incas who tried to turn them into slaves previously)
Anglo-Zulu War
- fight in Africa, Zulu’s overwhelming British and won
- British lost first invasion with less technology
Chief Joseph
-“I am tried of fighting” line
- showing how victory often leads to wearing down of forces after repeated attacks
Why some indigenous interact differently?
- Little Logic between
some Indigenous people had extreme distancing or violent aggression - others had remoteness to stay away
Ainu
-Conquered by Japan
- tried to Conquer China/ Mongolia
- (Native to Hokkaido)
- Slowed but did not stop the Japanese
Maori
- 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
North American Fur Trade
- search for furs led to travel to NA
- mixing of cultures
- Birth of Metis
- set stage for NA colonialzation
-Relationship eroded in western expansion
Serbia
- Russia took over by extending fur trades
- Imposed Yasak Tax, commercial fishing and reindeer herding
Basho Contracting System
Trading system
- Ainu trading with Japanese (who taxed them unfairly)
- taking of Ainu lands and importing diseases
White Man’s Burden
- Made by Rudyard Kipling
- discussing the duty to “bring up colonies”
