1. What causes conflict?
2. How did Italy unite? Specifically explain the role of Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi.
3. Explain the process by which Germany became a nation? Who is most responsible for unifying the German nation?
4. Compare and contrast Italy's process of unification to Germany's.
5. What territories were imperialized by Britain?
6. What territories were the European powers competing for?
7. What was the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905?
8. How was the Meiji Restoration good for Japan?
9. How was the Meiji Restoration bad for Japan?
10. Why did European powers feel the need to imperialize?
11. Who attended the Berlin Conference and what were the various outcomes?
12. How did Europeans use social Darwinism to justify imperialism?
13. How did the Dreyfus Affair impact France and the rest of Europe?
14. Why did the U.S. not compete for imperial possessions to the same extent as the Europeans?
15. Why is Emmaline Pankhurst historically significant?
17. Compare and contrast the artistic movements of the 19th Century. (Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism)
18. Compare German Unification to the Meiji Restoration.
Directions: summarize the following quotes into your own words.
1. One may say there is a force like a hundred thousand wedges trying [to] force every kind of adaptive structure into gaps in the economy of Nature, or rather forming gaps by thrusting out weaker ones…The final cause of all this wedging, must be to sort out proper structure & adapt it to change.
Charles Darwin (1838), as quoted by Edward J. Larson, Evolution (2004)
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2. When two races of men meet, they act precisely like two species of animals--they fight, eat each other, bring diseases to each other, and etcetera, but then comes the more deadly struggle, namely which have the best fitted organization or instincts (ie. Intellect in man) to gain the day.
Charles Darwin (1851), as quoted by Edward J. Larson, Evolution (2004)
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3. Can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?...This preservation of favorable variations…I call Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species. 1st Ed. Cambridge: Harvard Press (1964).
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4. Owing to the high geometrical rate of increase of all organic beings, each area is already fully stocked with inhabitants; and it follows from this, that as the favoured forms increase in number, so, generally, will the less favoured decrease and become rare…
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (1859)
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