Topic: Impact of Colonial Rule
Essential Question: How similar was the impact of colonial rule?
Period I
- Review: Reasons & Process of the establishment colonial rule
- review readings from pp. 20-28, 34-37.
- Review activity worksheets on Reasons for Imposition of Colonial Rule
- Exploration & Evangelism (1500s-1600s: Spanish, Portugese)
- Economic Exploitation (1700s-1800s: British, French & Dutch)
- Expansion of Empire (after 1871: Germany, Italy)
- Review activity worksheets on How Colonial Rule was Established
- Spheres of influence: setting up trading posts & acquiring concessions
- Policy of Intervention: Demanding extra-territorial rights & gunboat diplomacy
- Forward Movement: establishing protectorates & direct rule
- Understanding goals: How did SEA polities reacted to the establishment of colonial rule?
- Political collaboration
- Patriotic resistance
- Uneasy acceptance
- Performances:
- Cite examples from the case studies of the British in Malaya and the French in Indochina to illustrate each of the 3 stages of reactions to colonial rule
- Assessment: SEQ CA1.3 (to be submitted on Mon 2 April 07)
- Why did the colonial powers come to Southeast Asia? (12)
- Understanding goals: What were the impact of colonial rule
- Political stability?
- Finance & administration
- Figureheads & disempowerment
- Economic growth?
- Industry, trade and the cash economy
- Income inequality & labour exploitation
- Social development?
- Urbanisation & social amenities
- Education & the rise of nationalism
- Performances:
- Give examples from British Malaya & French Indochina to support each of the impact of colonial rule listed above.
- Assessment: Was the impact of colonial rule beneficial?
- Make a judgment using the format: Point-Elaboration-Evidence/Example-Link
