KT3a - Periphery

• General Essay Plan: Political - Era of Free Trade


  Indian Rebellion 1857

  Sparked from the vigorous annexation of Indian land through the Doctrine of Lapse; territories like Satara, Jhansi, Nagpur, Udaipur, and Punjab were annexed.
• General Essay Plan: Political - Era of New Imperialism


  Easter Rising 1916

  Although Sinn Fein was unsuccessful in the 1916 rising, the IRA used guerilla warfare which ended in the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty which established a new Catholic Irish Free State.
• General Essay Plan: Political - Era of Decolonisation


  Hold on Africa

  Brunei only got independence in 1984, Kenya got independence in 1963 compared to South Africa who got theirs in 1910 and the US in 1776.
• General Essay Plan: Social - Era of Free Trade


  Missionary Journey

  David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley and Cecil Rhodes were prominent missionaries. John Jennings sought to Christianise the city of Delhi.
• General Essay Plan: Social - Era of New imperialism


  Argentina - Railway 

  In 1914 the capitalisation of major networks of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern and the Central Argentine was built by the British, which was ⅔ of the Northern Eastern Railway (UK).
• General Essay Plan: Social - Era of Decolonisation


  Kenya - Globalisation/Immigration

  British rejection of githaka led to mass land displacement of Kenyans (1 in 8 were squatters) but by 1920, From 1946-52, 100,000 Kenyans were evicted from their own land.
• General Essay Plan: Economic - Era of Free Trade


  Second Opium War (1856-1860)

  The forced Treaty of Tientsin, followed by the Convention of Peking in 1860 opened Chinese ports to trade by the British, thus legalising the opium in China and a nation-wide crisis of opium-addiction.
• General Essay Plan: Economic - Era of New Imperialism


  Second Boer War (1881-1901)

  British South Africa Company residing Rhodes as prime minister there due to the Witwatersrand gold mines = Transvaal the richest area, yet this came with the death of 25,000 Boers (est.) in concentration camps.
• General Essay Plan: Economic - Era of Decolonisation


  Suez Crisis 1956

  In order to regain the Suez Canal (after Nassar nationalisation) the British (Eden) prompted Israel to invade Egypt leading to 3,000 (est) deaths.