Monday- started presentations
Australia
- Native tribes
- Western Culture
- 1600's Dutch landed in Australia
- Australia was a penal colony
- for prisoners
- Allied with the United States
Tuesday- presentations
Argentina-Mine
Wednesday- presentations
United Kingdom
- Population 1801 keeps going up
1500
- King Henry VIII crowned
- Battle of Flodden Field- English defeats the Scots and French
- Battle of Flodden Field
- Fought in Braxton
- largest battle between the two kingdoms
- 1600s
- Treaty of London
- Issac Newton is born
- First turnpike road was made in 1663
- Last outbreak of bubonic plague
Thursday-
India
- The British East India Company
- 1700-1857
- Aurangzeb (6th Mughal Emperor)
- After his death, his son started the company
- 1721
- Attingal Outbreak
- 140 British soldiers were killed by Native Indians
- There was also a hurricane that killed several people
- Early 1800
- British East India Company was known as British Raj.
- India's population is 200 million
- The British now control large parts of India and Delhi because of the Second Anglo-Maratha War
- Mid 1800s
- Slavery was finally abolished in India in 1833
- 1840- French scholar Joseph de Gobineau writes "The Inequality of Human Races," which proclaims the Aryan race as the superior race
- In 1843, the British conquer Sind region which is known as Pakistan today
- 1853- German Christian philologist Max Muller advocates that the term "Aryan" means people from central Asia
- First Indian Revolution
- Lasted from May 10, 1857 to November 1, 1858 (only 1 year 8 months)
- Cause: soliders didn't want to serve overseas
- Victor: British defeasted and stopped the rebellion
- Death: estimated around 800,000 to 10 million and most were civilians
- Late 1800s
- Ghandi was born in 1869
- 1885- Group of middle class found the Indian National Congress which is the origin of their government today
- 1886- Max Muller revised his stance on his term of "Aryan" to say that anyone who speaks the Aryan language is Aryan (Aryan language is from Greek)
- 1896- Nationalist leader Bal Bangadhar Tilak spreads nationalism through India to help push for independence
- LPS
- 1991
- Liberalization, Privatization, and Globalization
- Liberalization is defined as making economics free to enter in the market and establish their venture in the country
- Privatization is defined as when the control of economics is shifted from public to a private hand
- Globalization- regional economies, societies, and cultures have becmone integrated through a global network
- Indian Government Today
- Prime Minister: Narendra Modi
- President: Pranab Mukherjee
- Federal Government was established by the Constitution of India
- Constitution was written November 26, 1949 and put into effect on January 26, 1950
- First Indian Revolution
Friday-
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Portuguese Discover the Congo
- 1482
- Diogo Cao sails to the Congo, first European to set foot in the Congo
- Portuguese set up ties with the King and Natives
- 1600 to 1700
- Trade
- British, Dutch, Portuguese, and French merchants
- Slaves
- Trade
- 1800s Belgian Colonization
- King Leopold II private venture to colonize Congo
- 1874-1877: Henry Stanley (British) navigates the Congo River
- Leopold commissions Henry to establish the King's authority (1879-1887)
- 1884-1885
- Recognize Leopold's hold over the Congo Basin
- Congo is now headed by Leopold who stated the Congo as a free state led by him
- 1891-1892
- Belgians conquer Katanga
- Eastern Congo Wrested from Slave Trade
- 1892-1894: Eastern Congo overthrows Arab-Swahili slave traders
- Tippu Tip was an infamous slave trader
- 1908
- Belgian state annexes the Congo
- Protests over Leopold's killings begin, killing millions
- Belgian control grows stronger
- 1950s- The Beginning of a Free Congo
- 1955- Belgian Professor Antoine van Bilsen publishes "30 Year Plan," telling how they are planning to make the Congo a free country
- 1959- Belgium starts to lose control over the Congo due to nationalistic riots in Leopoldville (capital at the time)
- 1960
- In June of 1960, the Congo claims Independence from Belgium
- In July of 1960, the Congolese army faces mutiny, Belgian troops are sent in to help Belgian people
- In September of 1960, Kasavubu dismisses Lumumba as their prime minister
- In December of 1960, Lumumba is arrested
- 1961
- In February of 1961, Lumamba is murdered
- 1964
- New prime minister appointed
- 1998- Rebels
- Rwanda and Uganda rise up against Kabila to advance on Kinshasa
- Zimbabwe and Namibia send troops to repel them
- Angolan troops also side with Kabila
- The rebels take control
- Mobutu Years
- Joseph Mobutu- General
- 1965- Kasavubu Tshome was ousted in a coup led by Mobutu
- 1971- changed the name to "Republic of Zaire," his name to "See Seko," and the Congo River to "River Zaire"
- 1973-1974: Nationalize business firms and drives out European companies
- 1989- Congo defaults on Belgian loans, deterioration of economy
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