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Week 8 Flashcards

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Agency

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Ability to act and make choices (Indigenous people had agency in contrast to depictions and writing)

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Yellow River and Yangtze River

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Rivers in China, civilization revolved around these rivers to grow millet and rice

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Mandate of Heaven

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Justification of Chinese ruling made in the Zhou Dynasty
- Qin Shi Huang, Named himself an Emperor
- Emperors rule everything under Heaven

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Dynasties

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-Han Dynasty after Qin
- Qing is the last Dynasty, replaced by Republic of China then replaced by People’s Republic of China

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Forbidden City

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Palace complex in Beijing

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Matteo Ricci

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First European to see the Forbidden City

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Manchus

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  • Use of cavalry, helped in conquering central Asia
  • Product of social change
  • (technological advancements second most helpful)
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Zunghar/Dzungar Genocide

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  • carried out by Qin forces when conquering Asia
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9
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Chinese Cultural Revolution

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-Purged capitalism and traditional cultures

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Han

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  • idea of plural singularity
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Xinjiang

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  • Region in China
    -Uighurs, Turkish/ Muslim group of people live here
  • oppressed by Gov. since they do not comply to ideas of plural singularity
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Autronesian

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Native to Taiwan

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Dutch East India Company

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  • Arrived to establish trade/ military base
  • fought with Chinese and Han people
  • eventually turning Taiwan into their colony
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Taiwan Miracle

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Rapid industrialization and Growth
- became one of the 4 Asian tigers (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South K)

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Andaman Islands

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  • 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
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China and Taiwan colonization contrast

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  • China slow and incremental of neighbours over time
  • Taiwan: colonizers to colonized
17
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Spanish Empire

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15th-19th C
-Catholic Empire
- Colonized South America, Spanish and Catholicism today

18
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Bartolome de las Casas

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  • The Destruction of the Indes
  • Described the mistreatment of Indigenous people, sent to Prince of Spain
  • Supported colonization but not mistreatment of Indigenous peopel
19
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Aztec empire

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  • Domesticated many small states
  • forms triple alliance (with Texoco and Tlacopan) to colonize/ control area
  • Tenochititlan (Aztec)
20
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African Slave Trade

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21
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Hernan Cortez

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  • Led Spanish Conquistadors, Helped smaller groups to conquer the Aztecs
22
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Agta/ Aeta

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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

23
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Pequot War

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  • Indigenous war with English Colonizers precursor to King Philip’s war
24
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Pequot War lessons (3)

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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

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Mapuche War

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  • Resitance against Spanish colonization from Mapuche
  • (fought against Incas who tried to turn them into slaves previously)
26
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Anglo-Zulu War

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  • fight in Africa, Zulu’s overwhelming British and won
  • British lost first invasion with less technology
27
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Chief Joseph

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-“I am tried of fighting” line
- showing how victory often leads to wearing down of forces after repeated attacks

28
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Why some indigenous interact differently?

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  • Little Logic between
    some Indigenous people had extreme distancing or violent aggression
  • others had remoteness to stay away
29
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Ainu

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-Conquered by Japan
- tried to Conquer China/ Mongolia
- (Native to Hokkaido)
- Slowed but did not stop the Japanese

30
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Maori

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  • 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
31
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North American Fur Trade

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  • search for furs led to travel to NA
  • mixing of cultures
  • Birth of Metis
  • set stage for NA colonialzation
    -Relationship eroded in western expansion
32
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Serbia

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  • Russia took over by extending fur trades
  • Imposed Yasak Tax, commercial fishing and reindeer herding
33
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Basho Contracting System

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Trading system
- Ainu trading with Japanese (who taxed them unfairly)
- taking of Ainu lands and importing diseases

34
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White Man’s Burden

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  • Made by Rudyard Kipling
  • discussing the duty to “bring up colonies”

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