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Assignment:
1. Put these historical events in chronological order from earliest to most recent using their approximate start dates. Include start dates. Include both start and end dates when so directed.
A. Portuguese merchant sailors enter Indian Ocean World
B. Rise of NGOs.
C. Russian Communist Revolution
D. World War II (start and end dates)
E. Opium Wars
F. Cold War (start and end dates)
G. Imperial Chinese Commercial Revolution
H. Structural Adjustment Programs
I. Modern Colonial Period (start and end dates)
J. Atlantic Slave Trade (start and end dates)
K. Cuban-American war
L. Filipino-American war
M. Dissolution of USSR
N. Islam arrives on Swahili Coast
O. Industrialization
P. Great Dying in the Americas
Q. Spanish-American war
R. European merchant sailors across Atlantic to Americas
S. European merchant sailors across Pacific from Americas to Asia
2. What was the Great Dying in the Americas? Why did this occur?
3. Name three animals that were part of the Columbian exchange Afro-Eurasian eco-cultural bundle that crossed the Atlantic to the Americas.
4. When and why did sugar demand in England explode as a cross-class interval food (or stimulant food)? Explain sugar as an industrial interval/stimulant food.
5. What was the idea of the "White Man's Burden" in colonial ideology?
6. What was the 19th century Cult of Domesticity?
7. When was the first OPEC produced oil crisis? Why and how did (do) oil crises impact less wealthy less industrialized nations much more severely than they impact wealthy industrialized nations?
8. What is the difference between radical and liberal anti-colonial resistance?
9. Explain how the Cold War was cold but also was very much not cold. Name 3 places where the Cold War was not cold.
10. Explain the Cold War from both sides as anti-imperial imperialism.
11. Explain my argument that industrial workers and commodity consumers experienced alienation from their work and from the commodities they purchased.