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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 10

Empire, Resistance and Nationalism

In the 1800s industrial powers built vast empires in Africa and Asia. Learners analyze the motives, technologies and racist ideologies behind the 'New Imperialism', trace conquest from the Opium Wars to the Berlin Conference, study the many forms of resistance and adaptation (from Adwa to the Meiji state), and evaluate nationalism as both a liberating and an exclusionary force.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 130 minutes
  • Empire and nationalism check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, estimate, highlight a text, pick map regions and match pairs
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What learners will discover

  • Explain the economic, political, ideological and technological drivers of nineteenth-century imperialism.
  • Analyze imperial expansion in Africa and Asia, including the Opium Wars, Crown rule in India and the partition of Africa.
  • Compare forms of resistance and adaptation to imperialism from the perspectives of colonized peoples.
  • Evaluate nationalism's roles in unification, resistance and imperial rivalry.

Lessons

  1. Motives, means and ideologies 5 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  2. Conquest and rule in Asia and Africa 5 steps3 practiceabout 33 min
  3. Resistance and adaptation 5 steps3 practiceabout 33 min
  4. Nationalism's two faces 5 steps4 practiceabout 34 min
  5. Empire and nationalism check 9 questions at the end

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