The Arrival of the EuropeansHow does this recall our work from last semester’s “First Contact: Cortés and the Aztecs”?
Race: the Power of an IllusionPlease think about the questions on page 1, discuss them with your parents at dinner tonight (if possible), and bring back your written responses. Remember, your individual responses are private unless you choose to share them.
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FOR HOMEWORK: Click on the above image to read the ten statements. Do any of these surprise you? Which one(s) and why?
Causes of the New Imperialism ((tag:imperialism))Looking at these 9 documents as a whole, can we tease out 4-5 major causes of the New Imperialism? Think back to “ultimate” versus “proximate” factors and consider carefully about how you group and name your classifications. Would an actual historian understand your terminology?
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I praise such courage. I need such courage – because in this cause, I too am prepared to die. . .But, my friend, there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill....We will not strike a blow – but we will receive them. And through our pain we will make them see their injustice and it will hurt, as all fighting hurts! But we cannot lose. We cannot. Because they may torture my body, may break my bones, even kill me. They will then have my dead body – not my obedience.
What techniques does Gandhi suggest to resist the new South African law? From where does he derive his ideas? Who has he subsequently influenced?
PUNE, India, Feb. 27
On Jan. 30, 1948, Gopal Godse was a 28-year-old storekeeper at an Indian Army barracks in Pune. At 6 P.M., All-India Radio announced that a lone gunman in New Delhi had shot and killed Mohandas K. Gandhi, the 79-year-old apostle of nonviolence who led India to independence from Britain at midnight on Aug. 14, 1947.
The assassination stunned India but came as no surprise to Mr. Godse. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was his older brother. The two men had been active in the Hindu nationalist movement since the 1930's and planned the assassination along with several others.
Their purpose was to punish Gandhi, a Hindu, for his evenhanded attitude toward Muslims -- in particular for acquiescing in Britain's partition of India into the separate nations of India and Pakistan.
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Congrats to Annie, who was first in researching how Gandhi's assassin justified the murder. She wins the Gandhi doll!