coates, ch. 4: resistance and adaptation 1. cite one example of an indigenous people that fought the...
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Attendance Reading Quiz
Coates, Ch. 4: Resistance and Adaptation
1. Cite one example of an indigenous people that fought the newcomers.
2. Cite one example of an indigenous people that co-existed with nonviolent occupiers
3. How did natives adapt to the outsiders?4. Why is it so hard to understand that
indigenous people adapted and changed?
Answers
1. Fought newcomers: Jarawas, Arawaks in Caribbean, Tribal peoples of Africa, Aztecs, Maori, Ainu, Pequot, Shawnee, Seminoles, Apache, Comanche, Cheyenne, Nez Perce, Sioux (Lakota), Mapuche, Zulu, Tehuelche, Puelche, Warlpiri of Australia.
2. Coexisted with occupiers: Beothuk, Besho, Ainu, Maori, Metis
3. Adaptation? Responses… 4. Difficulty in understanding…
What is an Empire?
Reasons for creation? Examples of empires? Logic of Empire? How do Empires influence cultures? Internal vs. External Maintenance of an empire: day to day
function
A. The Late Ming Dynasty
After Yuan dynasty collapsed, Ming dyn. (1368-1644) restored native rule
Hongwu, founder of Ming, drove Mongols out of China, centralized state
1421 capital from Nanjing south to Beijing, closer watch on Mongols
Great Wall immense Project: started 221-210 BCE
Later emperors expanded the long defensive wall along northern border
Entire wall with all of its branches measures 21,196 km (13,171 mi)
Great Wall Exercise
Great Wall took one thousand years to build at a huge cost to human life and the treasury.
Led to bankruptcy and failed to keep outnorthern “barbarians”anyway
What alternatives to this project might there have been?
Jigsaw exercise to determine a viable alternative to the wall; attendance
Great Wall Exercise Assign four roles
Emperor: blue Military: orange Peasant/worker: green Merchant: yellow
Great Wall Jigsaw
Meet with fellow roles by numberWhat was your role in building the wall?How did the wall influence your group?
Create Great Wall Imperial Evaluation TeamsOne Person from each of four groups(One color in each group)
Assignment: Given ultimate failure of the wall in keeping out the Mongols (Chingis Khan beginning of 13th century; Manchurians) What alternatives might China have implemented?Write a paragraph with the solution devised by your team. Put names on your paper. (Attendance)One paper per group
B. Ming Governmentand Expansion
Ming emperors extravagant lives in Forbidden City, ignored government
Ming first turned inward, away from overseas commerce, forbid travel abroad
Emperor Yongle organized vast encyclopedia
Late Ming: 7 massive maritime expeditions (1405-1433)
Spread of Chinese culture through Asia
Indigenous People under Ming Domination
What happens when state denies native pop.?
Mongolia: dominant population based in a mobile, pastoral lifestyle: Indigenous?
The Miao People of southwest China See next slide for details
3. Indigenous People: the Miao
Miao People of Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region SW China
Mountainous, villages. Pop. 8,940,116 Paddy rice, maize, potatoes, sorghum, beans tobacco, sugar cane Large-scale migrations: wide
dispertions Miao language: 3 main dialects Linen jackets colorful designs Small, monogamous familes
arranged marriage s Miao Sister Festival
C. Collapse of the Ming Empire
1640s Manchu invaders plus rebels, Ming Empire collapsed
SG: Why do empires collapse?
C. The Qing Dynasty
Qing Empire Manchus poured into China, new dynasty:
Quing (pure) 1644-1911 Manchurian chief Nurhaci (1616-1626)
united tribes By 1680s consolidated dynasty throughout
China Preserved cultural, ethnic identity,
depreciated Chinese people 2 effective emperors: Kangxi (1661-1722)
and Quianlong (1736-1795)
1. Qing Emperors
Kangxi, Intellectual prodigy, warrior, interested science
Quianlong: learned man. Long, stable and prosperous reign, $ grew
Tightly centralized state, same structure as Ming
Success of Qing in conquest and trade, caused admiration in Europe
2. Economic and Cultural Changes
Ming and Qing succeeded restore traditional ways: hierarchy, patriarchy
Conservative social structure Patrilineal descent and grouped in clans, patriarchal
society Spanish American crops: corn, sweet pot, peanuts:
boosted population 100 million in 1500 to 160 mill in 1600, 225 mill by 1750 Early Qing dyn. global trade: tremendous prosperity Silk, porcelain, lacquerware, tea: tight government
regulation Chinese Society highly stratified Scholar bureaucrats, commoners, military forces and
mean people