Short Answer Questions
(assignment 21)

Notes:

1) This assignment, like ALL assignments in this class, must be typed. See handout on class expectations

2) You MUST use blackboard's digital dropbox (details here) to submit this homework

3) BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE FILE-NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR THIS COURSE.

All files should be named as: your last name, followed by an underscore ("_"), followed by a your first initial, followed by an underscore ("_"), followed by the assignment number. So if a student named Saddam Hussein were to submit assignment number 21, the file name would be:

hussein_s_21.doc

THIS IS ASSIGNMENT 21

Answer the following questions using your own words and not those of the readings. Answers that replicate the authors’ language will receive no credit. Each of these questions are "long answer" and will require at least a paragraph. Be sure to provide specifics.

From the Textbook reading:

1) In a brief paragraph entirely of your own words, carefully describe the process by which resistance to colonialism encouraged some in India to invent traditions and fabricate histories. USE YOUR OWN WORDS

2) In a paragraph entirely of your own words, describe how the Hindu intelligentsia, in resisting British colonialism, created an ethnically exclusive (although nationalist) vision of India? Be clear in your answer who got excluded from this vision. Read carefully and don't assume you know the answer. You may want to keep a copy of this answer to help you with your final paper.

From the Electronic Reserve Reading: J. McNeil, "Retreat From Globalization" in The Human Web, pp 288 - 295

3) In a paragraph entirely of your own words, describe what particular characteristics of the new industrial order the Russian and Italian “alternatives” responded to AND how these “solutions”were supposed to solve the problems at hand. BE PRECISE!!! DO NOT USE DIRECT QUOTATIONS. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

4 ) Why were the consequences on world trade linkages of the 1929 crash and the Black Death (addressed in the beginning of the semester) surprisingly similar? AGAIN, THE QUESTION DOES NOT ASK YOU TO DISCUSS THE DEATH AND SUFFERING ASSOCIATED WITH THE PLAGUE & THE 29 CRASH, BUT RATHER THEIR SIMILIAR CONSEQUENCE ON GLOBAL TRADE. USE YOUR OWN WORDS

5) In a paragraph entirely of your own words, describe the process by which 1920 crash and its consequences had important impacts on Africa and Asia. USE YOUR OWN WORDS