1. DRAW A LINE SEPARATING TODAY &
YESTERDAY
1) Write: Date: 11/08/10, Topic: Imperialism -
China
2) Next line, write “Opener #40” and then:
1) Write: “Africa Wrapup”
Geographical Journal
2) What problems do the borders of
Africa create?
BBC
3) List problems Africa still has
today?

2. Review
1) Give/Loan Money to African Govts
2) Give/Loan Money Directly to Af. Ppl
3) Pay for Af. Students to Study Here
4) Pay to Build Af. Infrastructure
(water, rail, roads, phone, internet)
5) Invest in African Industry and Trade
6) Provide Africa Cheap Medicine
(esp for HIV+AIDS)
7) Overthrow African Military Dictators
and Destroy African Waring Gangs

5. Agenda
1) Introduce Imperialism in China
What you will be able to do:
1) Know how China gets conqured
Reminder
1) Study for Test 2 and complete
podcast

6. Review
1) Enlightenment: 1600s, ideas of sci + freedom
2) Political and Industrial Revolutions: 1700s,
ideas of overthrowing gov, caused by
Enlightenment ideas (ind rev makes Eur #1)
3) Nationalism: 1700s-1800s, ideas of national
unity + superiority, caused by revol (typically
only mean the majorities, not minorities)
4) Imperialism: 1800s, industrial revolution +
nationalism pushes Europe to expand their
foreign control

7. Journ #40a, Title “Drug War”
Record your partner’s answer (include their
name at the end).
1) If businesses from County D were selling
drugs within Country B, should Country B have
the right to stop these foreign drug dealers?
2) If Country D declares war on Country B for
interfering with their drug dealer’s business,
which side would YOU support in the war?
3) If Country D wins, and this war took place 100
years ago, should Country D owe Country B
anything today, 2010, if so what?

8. Notes #40a, Title: “China Imperialism Notes”
1) Qing Dynasty (1644-1911): Dictatorial rule of an
emperor/ress, China felt superior to other nations,
needed nothing foreign (Empress Ci Xi (Dowager)>
Emperor Guang Xu > Ci Xi again > Emperor Puyi)

9. Notes #40a, Title: “China Imperialism Notes”
2) Trade Imbalance: Nation buys more, but sells less
a) Europe bought: Chinese teas, porcelain, silk
b) China bought: nothing, so accumulated Eur. silver
3) Opium Trade: UK discovered China would buy
British (India-grown) opium, China bleeds silver

10. Notes #40a, Title: “China Imperialism Notes”
4) Opium Wars (1839): China attempts to stop opium
trade, Britain goes to war to defend free trade
5) Unequal Treaty/Treaty of Nanjing (1842):
a) China must open ports
b) Foreigners need only obey for. laws, not China’s
c) British gain Hong Kong
2nd
Opium Wars, rest of Eur.+US get a-b (later Japan)

11. Journ #40b, Title “Opium Trade”
Commissioner Lin's Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
“We have heard that in your own country opium is prohibited
with the utmost strictness and severity:---this is a strong
proof that you know full well how hurtful it is to mankind.
Since then you do not permit it to injure your own country,
you ought not to have the injurious drug transferred to
another country, and above all others, how much less to the
Inner Land!
Our celestial empire rules over ten thousand kingdoms! Most
surely do we possess a measure of godlike majesty which ye
cannot fathom! Still we cannot bear to slay or exterminate
without previous warning, and it is for this reason that we
now clearly make known to you the fixed laws of our land. If
the foreign merchants of your said honorable nation desire to
continue their commercial intercourse, they then must
tremblingly obey our recorded statutes.”
1) What is the tone AND how should UK respond

12. Opium War Clip: 1:02, 1:18, 1:22, 2:16

13. Homework:
1) Study today’s notes + journal
sections for a possible journal quiz.
2) Pick and listen to your 4 news
podcast by next Monday
Test on Friday