Q4 W2 World History Virtual Learning

CP 2 classes complete 2 of the 4 assignments (I,II,III,IV)
CP1 classes complete 3 of the 4 assignments
Honors classes complete 4 of 4 assignments
           Cut and paste the questions from the blog and share them in a google docs with me or write down your complete answers, take a photo and email it to me at  mstanton@plymouth.k12.ma.us

I.  Watch Mr. Clifford's movie review of Capitalism and The Hunger Games  and answer 5 of the questions that follow:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXzkAs_cf0

1. What is Katniss' opportunity cost of choosing Peta?  What best option did she lose?
2. What was Katniss special skill or her comparative advantage?  What should Peta have chosen even though Katniss was also better than him at this task?
3. Why is Panem not a capitalist nation?  Does it allow a free market?
4. How does the iphone show a weakness of capitalism?
5. Give one reason why Clifford states "Capitalism is still awesome."
6. What is income inequality? How does Clifford believe this problem can be solved?


II. Although Clifford believes the Hunger Games is an allegory about capitalism, I think the Hunger Games has more in common with Fascism(Mussolini and Hitler)  and New Imperialism (1850-1914)after the Industrial Revolution. The economy of Panem was based on exploitation, and explotation is the basis of New Imperialism and Fascism.
Watch the Imperialism crash course and answer 8 of the questions that follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo

1. Europe wanted these three goods from China:  rhubarb, silk and _________
2. Besides silver, what product did the British trade  because the Chinese wanted no Western goods.
3.   What animal did the Chinese want to attach fireworks to and launch onto British ships?
4.What Chinese city did the British recieve after the Treaty of Nanjing? 
5. What European revolution allowed Europe to dominate Asia and Africa?
6. Finish the children's book statement: "C is for colonies, rightly we boast, that of all great countries  _______    ___________ has the most."
7. Before the Industrial Revolution why couldn't Europe bring horses into Africa?  What technology replaced horses to allow African imperialism?
8. What did Hiram Maxim invent that allowed for domination of Africa?
9. How did the British use indirect rule in India?  How were 1,000 British able to control 300 million Indians?
10. Complete the following   " thanks to imperialsm
       bananas are______________
       call centers are in _______________
       and everything else comes from __________________
11. Bonus question:  What was the only empire able to defeat Afghanistan?  (Hint, they are Green's favorite topic on Crash Course)

III. Watch John Green's Crash Course: Asian responses to New Imperialism (1850-1914)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmWfbXS4Pw
Answer 6  of the questions
   1. Match each intellectual from the Asian area they are from
      ___China                             A. Rabindrawath Tagore
      ___ Middle East                  B. Sayyid Jamal Ad Din Al Afghani
      ___ India                              C. Liang Qichao
2.  Green identifies in his thought bubble why Europe was able to dominate Africa and Asia in the era of New Imperialism (1850-1914). What 3 things did Asia need to reform if it were to compete with Europe and the West?
3. What did Aurobindo Ghose warn India would lose if they surrendered to European materialism?
4.  What two items does Green have in his hands when he describes European materialism?
  Is there any irony in that segment?
5. Japan modernized, but why was its modernization not a great model for other European states?
6. What type of rulers is Green's Open Letter dedicated to?  Why do people turn to these leaders in crisis?
7. Did Gandhi (more on him next week) accept or reject Western materialism?
8.  Complete the statement:  Imperialism extracted resources, but spread ________ and pluralism, and the nation state.


IV.  Watch these two videos and answer the 3 questions
Denmark, happiest place on earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9vdMTbRG4

1.  Bullet three reasons why Social Democratic Demank has been called one of the happiest places on earth for the last 40 years?   How stressful is life in Demark? What did you think of the truckdriver?

 Watch why is Scandanavia so expensive?   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VJX2W3O9Ek

Two acronyms you should know:  VAT- value added tax (a national sales tax on purchaces)
 OECD- Organization for Economic Cooperating Development (an international organization)
2. Bullet  3 reasons life in  Scandanavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland) is so expensive.
      What is paid for by the governments that costs so much?
3.  Bernie Sanders wants to bring this democratic socialist system to the US.
 Do you think :  A. it could work in the US?  Why or why not? (do we have Danish truckdrivers?)
                          B.  Is it  worth the cost?  Would you want to live in this type of economy?