Compare and Contrast Japan in the 1800s with China’s experience during the same period.
All answers must be at least 300 words.
1) The counterfactual is a tool of the historian’s trade. “What if something had or had not happened…” Looking at the past 500 years, how might the modern world be different had the European powers not “discovered” the New World?
2) Discuss TWO topics from GROUP A in relation to ONE topic from GROUP B. Explaining what each item is is not sufficient. For example, you could discuss how the Colombian Exchange and the Atlantic Slave Trade relate to Tokugawa , Japan.
GROUP A
1. The Protestant Reformation (and the Counter Reformation).
2. The Colombian Exchange
3. The Thirty Years\\\’ War
4. The Atlantic Slave Trade
GROUP B
1. The Collapse of the Ming Dynasty
2. Tokugawa Japan
3) The European desire for trade with the East (India, China, Japan, etc.) motivated them to search for alternatives to Islamic dominated trade routes. This inadvertently lead to the discovery of the New World, the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and to radical change in the nations of the Far East. Discuss ONE of the following topics in detail:
A. Compare and Contrast Japan in the 1800s with China’s experience during the same period.
B. Compare and Contrast Africa in the 1800s with the Islamic World’s experience during the same period.
OR
C. Compare and Contrast the experiences of Latin America during the 1800s with that of the United States during the same period.
4) Entertain the following counterfactual: If World War I had never happened, the twentieth century would have looked like… (Give an overview of what the world would have looked like for the European powers, the US, Japan, and the nations of Africa and Asia if World War I had been averted).
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