1. Nationalism and Imperialism

2. Why This Unit?
Throughout modern history, nationalism and religion have played crucial roles in both uniting and dividing people.
They form part of the identities of most people in the world, creating communities from similar and different backgrounds bound by common values and aspirations.

3. Why This Unit?
The new ideology of nationalism emerged out of the era of the Atlantic revolutions in the late eighteenth century.
It continued to grow and spread in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the convergence of such forces
as technology
liberalism
and imperialism combined to create important changes in the way people saw themselves, the world, and their place in it.
As nationalistic movements spread from Western Europe to the Americas, Africa, and Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century, people began forming new allegiances to a defined nation, and along with those new allegiances, new identities.

4. Why This Unit?
Although there was a rise in secular culture during this period, people also continued to define themselves through religion. Religious identities sometimes clashed with nationalistic identities, while in other instances they spurred nationalistic movements.
The focus of this unit is on the complex relationship between nationalism and religion from By studying these two great forces, you will be able to understand the tensions and boundaries that existed on the eve of World War I and the conflicts and changes that have continued through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

5. Era of the Modern Revolution (1750-1914)
Produced major developments in communication, technology, and ideas, all of which effected changes in the way people saw themselves and the world.

6. Era of the Modern Revolution
At the beginning of the era, most people in the world gave allegiance to a religion or religious leader, and the most common state was the dynastic state, largely consisting of rulers who were “divinely” ordained.
By the end of the era, however, religion’s influence was being eroded by science, liberalism, and secularism.

7. Era of the Modern Revolution
For the first time, people all over the globe saw themselves as members of a nation for which they were willing to fight and die.
Such nationalism led to increased competition between powerful Western nations, which scrambled to increase their legitimacy by colonizing Asia and Africa.
Even those non-Western nations that remained self-governing were unable to escape the changes wrought by new technologies and ideas.

8. Era of the Modern Revolution
As imperial powers spread to other lands, they brought many of their scientific and liberal ideas with them. Some people embraced those ideas whole-heartedly and even used them to their advantage.
In Africa, for example, elite men and women educated in Western-style schools became leaders in the African anti-colonialist and nationalist movements in the twentieth century.
Others embraced liberal ideas in some spheres, like the military and industry, while rejecting democracy.
Sometimes, disagreements over how to react to Western hegemony led to rifts within communities. Some Muslim leaders, for example, were torn over how to deal with Western intrusion, causing debates within Islam that can still be felt today.

9. Creating A Definition of Nationalism

10. 1- Defining Nationalism
Read the excerpts. Circle or highlight all the examples you can find of nationalistic attributes - example- common language.
Make a master list on the back.
Rank the three countries as to how well they meet the attributes.

11. Defining Nationalism
What did you come up with? What elements do you think make up nationalism?
language
history
race
culture
shared identity
loyalty of nation over loyalty to individuals or groups
political claims to have own sovereignty

12. Examples & Non-Examples of Nationalism
Use our class list of nationalism attributes and compare to these examples
Which ones fit and which ones don’t? Why?
Which ones fit?
Why doesn’t one fit? what would have to happen to make it fit?
Modern examples?

13. Development of Nationalism in India and the Ottoman Empire (1850-1914)

14. Your task: construct timelines (2) on the development of nationalism in
Ottoman Empire
India

15. 1. Create a timeline with at least 5 events (1814-1950) for each nation
2. Under each event list details as to how this event contributed to nationalism
3. You should note if people changed in how they identified themselves.
For India and for Ottoman Empire use handouts
For India use Human Experience book (pp ) and use Holt History Book (p )
For Ottoman Empire use Wikipedia: Ottoman Empire - then search Decline and Modernization )

16. Examining India and Ottoman Empire

17. Elements of Nationalism (take notes)
1. Valuing a collective identity based on history, language, race, and/or ethnicity
2. Believing a certain group of people is bonded together because of a shared identity
3.Placing loyalty to a defined nation above loyalty to other groups or individual interests.
4. Making political claims on behalf of a defined nation, especially the right of a nation to form a sovereign state.

18. India and Ottoman Empire
Similarities?
Differences?
Why did these differences occur?
Did religion play a significant role?

19. You each will receive a section of the primary resources you examined earlier.
Circle the key elements of nationalism and be prepared to explain to the class

20. Period of Tanzimat reforms (1839-1876)
Imperial Edict proclaiming the equality of all subjects before the law and granting political rights to Christians and Jews (1856)
Romania adopts a new constitution (1864)
Ottoman Constitution (1876)
Russo-Turkish Wars in which Serbia joins Russia against the Ottoman empire ( )
Congress of Berlin: independence of Romania, Montenegro, and Serbia (1878)
Young Turks movement (1870s-1914)
British forces occupy Egypt (1882)
Young Turks depose Sultan Abdulhamid II (1909)
Balkan Wars ( )

21. Period of Tanzimat reforms (1839-1876)
Ottoman Empire:
Period of Tanzimat reforms ( )
Imperial Edict proclaiming the equality of all subjects before the law and granting political rights to Christians and Jews (1856)
Romania adopts a new constitution (1864)
Ottoman Constitution (1876)
Russo-Turkish Wars in which Serbia joins Russia against the Ottoman empire ( )
Congress of Berlin: independence of Romania, Montenegro, and Serbia (1878)
Young Turks movement (1870s-1914)
British forces occupy Egypt (1882)
Young Turks depose Sultan Abdulhamid II (1909)
Balkan Wars ( )

22. Indian Rebellion ( )
Queen Victoria of Great Britain takes the title of Empress of India (1876)
British found universities in major Indian cities (1857)
Indian National Congress formed (1885)
Partition of Bengal (1905)
Gandhi begins his campaign of satyagraha (1907)
Bal Gangdhar Tilak addresses the Indian National Congress and calls for Home Rule (1908)

23. India
Indian Rebellion ( )
Queen Victoria of Great Britain takes the title of Empress of India (1876)
British found universities in major Indian cities (1857)
Indian National Congress formed (1885)
Partition of Bengal (1905)
Gandhi begins his campaign of satyagraha (1907)
Bal Gangdhar Tilak addresses the Indian National Congress and calls for Home Rule (1908)

24. India and Ottoman Empire
Similarities?
Differences?
Why did these differences occur?
Did religion play a significant role?

25. India and Ottoman Empire
How has studying nationalism in the Ottoman empire and India expanded and/or contested your knowledge of nationalism from the previous lesson? (where we defined attributes of nationalism as well as identified examples and non-examples)
You may hand in a written response OR
You may answer the question on our Voicethread. If you choose this option you must hand in a rough draft (bulleted is o.k.) of how you intend to respond.
Either way you must provide specific examples to back up your contentions.

26. Struggles to Retain Old Identities

27. Think about the ways Westerners were “intruding” on regions outside of Europe and North America
Military - Culture - Objects - How might things have been different if there had been no exposure?

28. Struggles to Retain Old Identities
Non-Western leaders and thinkers debated how extensively they should adopt Western ways so that their communities could survive the European economic or political domination.
Some leaders wished to retreat into an idealized past, avoiding Western influence altogether
Others were willing to accept change but wanted to confine Western-inspired reforms to certain spheres, such as the military or industrialization

29. Egypt and Japan
One of you will get Egypt and one of you will get Japan
Using handouts and text examine their struggle for identity and complete the Venn diagram

30. Egypt and Japan
What role did nationalism and religion play in the national identity prior to significant contact with the West?
What role did nationalism and religion play in people’s struggles to retain their identity?
What role did nationalism and religion play in forming new aspects of the national identity following significant contact with the West?

32. 1853 Commodore Perry enters Japan with superior naval force
Significantly
New Identities
After Meeting
the West
Identities
Intact After
Meeting the
West
Old Identities
Before Meeting
The West
Tokugawa - Edo
W/ Shogunate- Diamyo - Samurai
Emperor only figurehead
standardizing weights, laws, roads
economy grew
Strict isolationalist
unique Japanese culture flourished
high literacy rates
Shinto religion
some industrial expansion
financial difficulties
1853 Commodore Perry enters Japan with superior naval force
Japan forced to open ports to trade
Samurai win civil war - traditionalists gone - Meiji restoration
samurai remain but become bureaucrats
education remains but becomes expanded and universalized
Industry but now much more modern
women still inferior
Shintoism stronger
new Western ways adopted in gov’t and industry
modern military
Buddhism restricted
Japanese culture adopts Western culture -hair, diet, fashion

34. 1798- France briefly battle Egypt (Napoleon)
Significantly
New Identities
After Meeting
the West
Identities
Intact After
Meeting the
West
Old Identities
Before Meeting
The West
1798- France briefly battle Egypt (Napoleon)
1801 British Ottoman forces in Egypt
Muhammed Ali controls Egypt -
modernizes army
Increase agriculture
modernizes infrastructure
Khedives follow and are ineffective
focus only on cotton
Muslim identity - important meeting place for Middle Eastern Muslims
Suez Canal built
modernize but more Europeans
agriculture still remains the basis - no diversity
more railroads and infrastructure, dams, Suez Canal
foreigners in population
European domination in politics
Muslim identities in conflict with Western Christian identities
Ideas of how to deal with Western influences develops into Pan-Islamism - unifying Muslim Community worldwide
Accept democraticization of the West and scientific ideas
don’t accept ideas of the West - call for return to traditional ideas

35. What role did nationalism and religion play in the nation’s identity prior to significant contact with the West?
2. What role did nationalism and religion play in the people’s struggles to retain their identity?
What did they keep
What could they not keep
3. What role did nationalism and religion play in forming new aspects of the nation’s identity following significant contact with the West?

36. Egypt and Japan Exit ticket
Write a Dear Abbey letter from one of these point of views - express a legitimate concern that a person of that time might have
farmer, merchant, woman, or samurai during the Meiji period in Japan Or
peasant, moderate Muslim, or radical Muslim in late nineteenth-century Egypt.

37. Summary
Choose a side and write a persuasive response to the statement: Nationalism was a positive force in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.
Either defend or oppose the statement.
Use your work from the unit, and other research to defend your positions.

38. Entry Ticket Write a reflection piece that describes:
Your reaction to the material in the unit.
Your predictions for the role nationalism and religion will play in the remainder of the twentieth century.