Country Worksheet II
Name:
Country:
(1) Was there some sort of political kingdom located in the area of your contemporary country in 1500? If so, describe? Who controlled the land? If there was no political kingdom, what peoples were there? Who did they trade or interact with?
(2) Did European expansion in the 1400s-1700s impact your country? If so, how? (Slavery? Exploration? Trade? Direct Colonization?)
(3) How did your country get tied into the European imperial order in the 1800s?
(4) Were there any migrations of peoples that shaped your country’s population in the 1800s?
(5) Were there any environmental changes that shaped your country in the 1800s? (droughts, livestock diseases such as rinderpest, human diseases, or others)
(6) What was the political situation in your country in 1913? Who was in control, was there an independence movement, were Europeans investing money in the country’s infrastructure, or harvesting resources?
RESOURCES (for some of this, you will need to track down multiple websites in the library of congress portals website):
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html