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M.I. MOORE – AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM IN CHINA

PART OF LARGER UNIT ON NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM

Textbook: Spielvogel, Western Civilizations

Students Homework for Unit: Outline the Chapters following the guideline for Moore- Outline Chapter ____.

**** AP European History Units are two weeks long covering two chapters. The lessons centering on European Imperialism in China will be integrated into the larger unit. They will be used throughout the two week unit along with lecture, discussion, and other materials on Imperialism.

Goal: Students will examine the role of European Imperialism in shaping the world of the nineteenth century. (Later units will examine lasting effects). Among the questions to be considered will be the following:
What were the motives of the European powers, or individuals?
Was it God, Glory, and Gold?
How were these different or similar to earlier colonialism?
Did the Europeans achieve their goals?
What were the effects on the nonEuropean countries they encountered or conquered?
What was local reaction?
How were both areas of the world changed?

Key Terms: imperialism, spheres of influence, extraterritoriality, Boxers, empress dowager, dependent colony, settlement colony

Classroom Activities/Lessons - - - To be Used Along with Lecture/Discussion in Unit

Activity One: Introduction to unit. Listen to song, “Rule Britannia”
Lyrics on screen
What do these lyrics mean?
"The Sun Never Set on The British Empire"

Activity Two: Rudyard Kipling, “White Man’s Burden”
Short pair discussion of poem
Write short paragraph on what the paragraph would mean to readers at the time.
How would Europeans and Americans react?
How would the educated elite (nonEuropean) react?

Activity Three: Map of China
Students complete map of China using text and overhead
Legend to identify European countries’ spheres of influence

Activity Four: Drawings, Cartoons
Students in groups of three or four
Each group gets an illustration
Task is to analyze it as a group, then give an explanation to the class

Activity Five: MIT website
View on screen the goods traded – shows the fine work/luxury items that China had to
offer to the west

Culminating Activity for China studies – DBQ
DBQ on turmoil of the nineteenth century in China and Europe’s contributions to this; specifically selections from the the Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion, and Boxer Rebellion