February 19 and 20, 2014
AP Human Geography Agenda
Ethnicity
Ethnicity – At the end of this unit, students will be able to:
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Know where ethnicities are distributed, both in the US and in major world regions
Discuss why and how ethnicities have been transformed into nationalities
Define the following: Nation-State, Nationalism, Multinational State, Multiethnic State, Balkanization
Understand why ethnicities clash
Define Ethnic cleansing and understand where and why this has happened
Big Framing Objective –
Ethnicity
Discuss the effect that race and
ethnicity have on different areas of
the world, specifically the US and
Africa.
By the end of today, we will
1. Begin to assess the effects of ethnic cleansing on the world
Part I: Do now – What do I remember? (5 minutes): Individual
What is ethnic cleansing?
Part II: Map Quiz – Central Asia!
Over the next few days, we will be completing the following:
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How ethnicities become nationalities
Ethnic conflicts – covered in Key Issue #3
Ethnic Cleansing – covered in Key Issue #4 and the video “Ghosts of Rwanda”
Group assessment on Ethnic conflicts
Possibly – Breaking up is hard to do
Part III: Do Later – what did I learn (end of class): Individual
What can be a solution to end ethnic cleansing?
What needs to be turned in at the
end of this class?
 Do Now Do Later
 Group Assessment
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UpComing Events:
2/21 and 2/24: TEST on Religion and Ethnicity
2/25 and 2/26: Begin Political Geography
What is due next class?
 TEST! – the short
answer questions
can be found on my
website!
IF YOU LEARN ONLY 3 THINGS IN THIS UNIT:
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There are 5 primary relgions in the world today: Christianity, Islam, Judaism (the 3 “western”
religions) and Hinduism and Buddhism (the 2 “eastern” religions). Christianity is the largest
religion in the world with just over 2 billion followers. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the
world.
Religions are defined as monotheistic or polytheistic, and ethnic (born into) or universalizing (may
convert into).
There are architectual differences in religious structures around the world. Christians use
churches, Jews use synagogues, Muslims use mosques, Hindus use temples, and Buddhist use
pagodas.
This Day in History
1674 The Netherlands and England signed the Peace of Westminster, by which New Amsterdam passed to the
English (and was renamed New York).
1807 Aaron Burr, vice president under Thomas Jefferson, was arrested for treason. He was later acquitted.
1878 Thomas Edison patented the gramophone (phonograph).
1942 President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order that resulted in the internment of thousands of
Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast.
1945
1959
1968
1997
2008
The U.S. Marines went ashore at Iwo Jima.
Britain, Turkey, and Greece signed the agreement granting Cyprus independence.
The first nationwide broadcast of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood aired on PBS.
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader, died.
Fidel Castro resigned as President of Cuba after 49 years in power. Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother, succeeded
him as president.
INTERFAITH CONFLICTS
Place
China (Tibet)
Nigeria
Interfaith Boundary
Tibetan Buddhism and
Atheism
Islam and Christianity
India
Hinduism and Sikhism
India and
Pakistan
Former
Yugoslavia
Hinduism and Islam
Central African
Republic
Muslim and
Christianity
Burma/Myanmar
Buddhism and Islam
Christianity and Islam
Conflict
The atheist Chinese government id destroying Tibetan Buddhist
monasteries, and overall trying to suppress the religion.
Islam prevails in the northern region while Christianity and local
religions prevail in the South. Lead to power based tensions for
government control
Sikhs in the NW state of Punjab demand autonomy from the Hinducontrolled government of India
Pakistan was established as a Muslim state in 1948. Pakistan and
India are fighting over territory called Jammu and Kashmir
In the Yugoslavian civil wars of the 1990s, Serb leader Slobadan
Milosevic tried to kill or evict the Muslim population in Bosnia and
the other Serbian controlled lands in the region
With its Muslim-Christian overtones risks escalating into sustained
violence along religious lines and spilling beyond the country’s
borders, further destabilizing the whole region
Though Muslims nationwide have been targeted, members of one
particular ethnic group, the Rohingya, have borne the brunt of the
violence. Many Buddhists view the Rohingya Muslims, who live
along the border with Bangladesh, as illegal immigrants, even
though many have been in Myanmar for generations.
INTRAFAITH CONFLICTS
Place
Iraq
Intrafaith Boundary
Islam: Sunni and
Shiite
US
Christian:
Fundamentalism and
moderate Christianity
Christian: Protestant
and Catholic
Northern Ireland
Conflict
After the fall of the largely Sunni government controlled by
Saddam Hussein, both Sunnis and Shiites are warring for
control of the newly forming political landscape
Christians have conflicted in the US over political-cultural
issues such as homosexuality, evolution, and abortion. In
some cases, violent tactics have been used
British Colonialism deposited large numbers of Protestants
in traditionally Catholic Northern Ireland. Has caused violent
conflicts between the 2 groups in the regions