Assignment task:
Section 1 questions:
Q1. What did the Spanish American independence movements have in common? What made them different from each other?
Q2. Given that the Congress of Cúcuta established a government in which only property owners could vote and slavery was abolished only gradually, to what extent can Simón Bolívar truly be thought of as a "liberator"? How "revolutionary" was Bolívar's movement?
Q3. How did events in early nineteenth-century Western Europe, Spanish America, and the United States affect Brazilian independence?
Q4. In what ways were the Portuguese American and Spanish American struggles for independence similar? How and why did they differ?
Q5. Is it reasonable to say that Brazil became independent when it remained a monarchy? Who was liberated by the Grito do Ipiranga, Brazil's people or its ruler? Why?
Section 2 questions :
Q1. What were some of the obstacles to industrialization faced by India, Egypt, and China? How might industrialization have played out if these obstacles had been addressed differently?
Q2. What role did the Japanese government play in Japan's industrialization during the Meiji Restoration? How did their approach to industrialization differ from that of governments in Europe and North America?
Q3. What role did racism play in motivating those from industrialized nations to colonize other lands?
Q4. Which of the inventions of the industrial world do you think played the greatest role in enabling the colonization of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific? Why?