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Learning Objectives

  1. Who were the "Indios"?
  2. What were the perceptions that the Europeans and the Native Americans had of each other?
  3. What was the historical purpose behind Columbus’ attempt to sail west?
  4. What was the fate of the Tainos?
  5. What was Cortés' role in the conquest of Mexico?
  6. How did the Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire?
  7. What were the Native American responses to Spanish conquest?
  8. What was Bartolome de Las Casas' role in the New World?
  1. What is the history of Europeans' entrance to maritime Asia?
  2. What are the political systems of China and Japan?
  3. How did Matteo Ricci's cultural conversion in China unfold?
  4. What was the dialogue between the Jesuits and the Chinese?
  5. What was the Jesuits’ experience in Japan?
  1. What are the differences between the characterization of how outsiders were treated in the Ottoman Empire compared to the reality?
  2. What is the millet system?
  3. What were foreigners’ roles in the Ottoman Empire’s trade and commerce?
  4. What were the government structure and the imperial diversity of the Ottoman Empire?
  5. What obstacles did the Ottoman Empire experience in its policy of toleration?
  6. What were the goods that were traded to and by the Ottoman Empire?
  7. What were the Ottoman slave markets?
  8. What were the similarities and differences between the reasoning of the pilgrims and missionaries traveling through the Empire?
  9. What were the evolving relationships of Jews, Greeks and Muslims in Salonica and Algiers?
  10. Why did westerners view the Ottoman society negatively?
  1. What were the perceptions that the Europeans and the Native Americans had of each other?
  2. How did Native Americans and British colonists view and use the land differently?
  3. What was the impact the fur trade had on the Native American tribes?
  4. What was the importance of the “middle ground”?
  5. How did the history of the Catawba tribe unfold?
  6. What was the relationship between the Native Americans and the U.S. government?
  1. What was Polynesian life like at the time of its contact with the west?
  2. What were the developments within European society that shaped its changing views of Polynesia?
  3. What were the similarities and differences between the encounters that captains Samuel Wallis, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook had in Tahiti?
  4. What was the role of castaways in European-Polynesian encounters?
  5. What were the results of contact between the Polynesian and non-Polynesian peoples?
  1. What were the political and cultural legacies of the Mongol Empire?
  2. What was the relationship between the Russian Empire and the peoples of the steppe?
  3. What were the economic motives behind raiding and the slave trade?
  4. What were the diplomacy and conquests that took place between the Russian government and the steppe peoples?
  5. What was the missionary activity Russia used to convert the steppe peoples to Russian Orthodox Christianity?
  6. How did the history between Russia, China and Mongolia up to the negotiated agreements in 1689 evolve?
  1. What was Britain’s relationship with India from 1600 to 1800?
  2. What was the role that Orientalists had in the relationship between India and Britain?
  3. What were the similarities and differences between the Bengal Renaissance and the European Renaissance?
  4. What were the strategies Britain used to remake India?
  5. What were the key points concerning the War of 1857?
  6. What was the relationship between the Indians and the British in the aftermath of the War of 1857?
  1. How did Japan acquire its empire, and what was the role nationalism played in the acquisitions?
  2. What was Japanese policy in the new colony of Taiwan?
  3. How did Japanese encounters with the indigenous peoples of Taiwan unfold?
  4. How did Japan's expansion into Korea develop, and what was the Korean reaction to this expansion?
  5. How did Japan's expansion into Manchuria and China evolve?
  6. What were the intentions of the Far Eastern Olympic Games?
  7. What were the effects of and controversies surrounding the Rape of Nanjing?
  1. How did European colonialism impact Africa?
  2. What were European perceptions of Africa, and how did they shape the colonial encounter?
  3. How did the missionaries perceive their role in bringing Christianity to Africa?
  4. What was the perception Africans had regarding the European missionaries?
  5. How did the conversion of Africans to Christianity contribute to the change in African society and politics?
  6. How and where did Islam spread throughout Africa?
  7. How did the rise of nationalism in the early twentieth century affect decolonization?
  1. What are the key factors that surround the issue of immigration into Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?
  2. What are the points of conflict between immigrants to Europe and European citizens?
  3. What conflicts have arisen between Islamic law and the European legal system?
  4. What are examples of extreme responses to immigrants and immigration?
  5. What are the experiences of non-Muslim immigrants in Europe?

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