socio5 2 the world during rizal's time

RIZAL AND HIS TIMEPROLOGUE

• What are the effects of the

developments/modernization at

the turn of the 21st Century?

Before the birth of Rizal.

Feb. 19, 1861 – the liberal Czar Alexander II issued a

proclamation emancipating 22,500,000 serfs to appease the

rising discontent of the Russian masses.

June 19, 1861 the birth of Rizal, the American Civil war was raging

furiously in the United States on the negro Slavery.

• April 12, 1861 the negro slavery in

the United States erupted.

• September 22, 1863, President

Lincoln issued his famous

Emancipation Proclamation.

• June 1, 1861, Benito Juarez, a full

blooded Zapotec Indian was

elected president of Mexico.

Benito Juarez

Abraham Lincoln

• Emperor Napoleon III of the Second French Empire with his imperialistic desire to secure a colonial stake in Latin America invaded and conquered Mexico. He installed Archduke Maximilian of Austria as puppet emperor of Mexico on June 12, 1864.

• Because of the raging

American Civil War

President Juarez cannot

obtain military aid from his

friend president Lincoln.

The Birth of Rizal

Germany and Italy

• Succeeded in unifying their own countries

Prussians

• Led by Otto von Bismarck, the “Iron Chancellor” defea-ted France in the Franco-Prussian war and established the German Empire on Jan. 18, 1871

France

• With the defeat of Emperor Napoleon his Second French Empire Collapsed and over its ruin the Third French Republic arose, with Adolph Thiers as first President.

The times of Rizal saw the

flowering of Western Imperialism.

En

gla

nd Emerged as the

world’s leading imperialist power

People asserted that “Britannia Rules the Waves”

Co

n’t Won in the First

Opium war (1840-1842) against Chinese Empire under the Manchu dynasty,

Acquired the island of Hong Kong

Co

n’t Won again in

the Second Opium War (1856-1860) and forced the Manchu Dynasty to cede Kowloon Peninsula.

• Other British colonies:

• India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,

Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Burma,

Maldives, Aden, Malaya,

Singapore and Egypt.

• In South Pacific they were

able to get Australia and

New Zealand.

Other Imperialist countries that

followed Britain’s example:France

• Vietnam, annexed Cambodia and Laos, federated the colony under the name French Indochina.

Netherlands

• Colonized the East Indies and named it the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia)

Czarist Russia

• Conquered Siberia, Kamchatka, Kuriles, and Alaska (sold in 1867 to the U.S. for $7,200,000) as well as Muslim Khanates of Bokhara, Khiva, and Kokand in Central Asia.

Czarist Russia

• Also acquired Manchuria and as a “sphere of influence”

• Built the 5,800-mile Trans-Siberian Railway, reputed to be “the world’s longest railroad” linking Vladivostok and Moscow.

Japan

• July 8, 1853 Japan

re-openedto the world. (214-year isolation)

• Fought against

the weak China

in the Sino-

Japanese war,

grabbed Formosa,

Pescadores and

later annexed

Korea

Germany

• scramble for colonies in Asia and Africa, turned to the Islands in the Mid-Pacific world including the Yap island which contested by Spain, Pope Leo XII gave only Germany the right to trade and establish coaling station

European Imperialism

Spain

Spain who was once

upon a time the “Mistress of the World”,

was stagnating as

a world power.

Lost her rich colonies in

Latin America

(Paraguay, Argentina,

Chile, Colombia

and Ecuador.

Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador,

and Nicaragua, Venezuela,

Peru, Bolivia and Uruguay

Colonies that remained under her rule was

Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

Spain’s former colonies

The Philippines of Rizal’s Times

• During the times of Rizal, the

sinister shadows of Spain’s

decadence darkened the

Philippine Skies.

Evils of Spain in the Philippines

Instability of adminis-

tration Corrupt Officialdom

Human rights

denied to Filipinos

No Phil. Repre-

sentation in the

Spanish Cortes

No equalityMaladmi-nistration of justice

Frailocracy

Guardia civil

Haciendas owned by the friars

Racial Discrimi-

nation

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