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Get ready for your countries of Africa quiz!
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Prompt: Did the United States do the right thing by
fighting the spread of communism during the Cold
War?
Explain your answer using the following vocabulary:
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ideology
representative democracy
totalitarian
capitalism
communism
Soviet Union
Vietnam or Korea.
You have 15 minutes to write your response.
Let’s take some notes!!!
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State
County
Province
Empire
City
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Which of each do you live in? (except empire)
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Hearth for
modern
state—
Western
Europe
Before 1648,
lots of
kingdoms
whose borders
constantly
changed
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In 19th and 20th
centuries,
nationalism rose
in Europe
Nationalism—
Pride in your
state or nation
Led to many new
countries
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Europe entered into the
Industrial Revolution first
(1700’s)
Meant that Europe had
more machinery, more
population, better weapons
AND more disease because
they had bigger, more
crowded cities
Also meant that these
countries needed
natural resources to
feed their growing
societies
 Most European
countries are small,
and don’t have many
resources
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Colonialism—When
one country takes
over another
country, usually for
natural resources
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Spaniards “discover”
South American
countries in the 1500’s
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Better weapons, new
diseases
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Easily conquer Native
tribes
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Both parts of the world got introduced to
new things
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Nations fought to be
free, wanted selfdetermination
(sovereignty.)
• Decolonization
happened
• Most Latin American
nations became
independent 1800 - 1824.
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Same as
colonialism
In late 1800s
European
states split up
Africa and
competed for
power and
land
Largest
empire—
Great Britain
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Nationalism
Industrial Revolution
Racism
Cultural Duty- The White Man’s Burden
Take up the White Man's burden-Send forth the best ye breed-Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild-Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
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Largest
empire—
Great Britain
“The Sun
Never sets on
the British
Empire”
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Africans lost their
lands, their power,
and their lives to
Europeans
Europeans built
infrastructure only
to extract
materials from
Africa
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Europeans allowed very
little education for
Africans
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Congo
Europeans divided
Africans up largely by
geometric boundaries
• Ethnically, made no
sense
• Led to multi-state
nations and
multinational states
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Occurred 1940s to 1970s.
World War II weakened colonizing countries, allowed
colonies to get self determination
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Dependencies
= few remaining
colonies, usually small
island territories
Even though they have sovereignty, most former colonies still
have low standards of living.
 Three divisions within world economy
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 Core - MDCs
 Periphery – LDC’s that were the core’s colonies.
 Semi-periphery - Countries with economic situations between the core and
periphery.
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What is the difference between a nation and a state?
What is a nation-state?
Where is the cultural hearth of the modern state?
Why were European countries interested in being
imperialistic?
What is the Colombian Exchange?
How has nationalism led to countries achieving self
determination?
What area achieved self determination first, Latin
America or Africa?
What is the main idea of the core periphery model?
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FRQ—2015 #1
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Find a news article that represents something
we have learned in our first three
powerpoints.
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Print out the article or email it to me. Include
a brief (2-3 sentence) explanation of how the
article represents the concepts we have
covered in class.
john.sigren@gmail.com
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