Grade 7 : Questions

Questions :

1. What is History?

“It’s the record and the study of the past human events that have shaped the way the world is today.”

2. What are the reasons why we study History.

Understanding change and how our society came to be.
Learning from past successes and failures
Understanding and respecting one another
Developing our critical thinking skill

3. Who was the first emperor of Holy Roman Empire?

Charlemagne – the fist Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD

4. What were the reasons of the decline of the Holy Roman Empire.
-After Charlemagne died, no other Holy Roman Emperor was strong enough to rule over the states in the empire.
-On the other hand, the German princes of the states became more powerful individually.

5. What the result of the decline of the Holy Roman Empire?
-By the mid-17th century, every state in the empire, in fact, became independent of the emperor.
-There was no more unity in Europe.

6. How a nation-state was built?
A nation-state was built when a group of people, who spoke a single language, shared the same religion and had the same cultural origin, united to form a country under a central government.

7. Why feudal lords were unable to provide what the people needed?
Lords fought among themselves, and this made them weak.

8. What the merchants needed for their trading activities?
-They needed law and order for trade.
-They needed a safer and more efficient transport system.

9. Briefly explain why the feudal system was inadequate for the changing European societies.

10. Why in National Government made the nobles and knights less important?

Grade 8 : India (Part 2)

INDIA (PART 2)

India Under the British Goverment

•After the mutiny, Parliament dissolved the EIC and all its territory and authority were given to the British government. India became a British colony.
•The British government promised the Indians religious freedom.
•From then on, The British government was more careful in introducing reforms.
•However, the mutiny increased the Indians’mistrust of the British.
•It led to a rise of nationalism in India.

Effects of British Rule in India

British rule had a great effect on many aspects of Indian life.
•It gave the Indians a sense of unity as one nation by providing a modern and centralized goverment for the whole country.
•The economy was developed by the introduction of railways, telecomunication, banks, etc.
•In social, practices such as suttee and the killing of female babies were abolished.
•A modern class of bourgeoisie gradually emerged and became the strongest class in India.
•Education was promoted and many students were exposed to Westen ideas such as Liberalism and Nationalism.

Independence Movement

•In 1885 the Indian National Congress (INC) was formed with the support of the British.
•The INC gave the Indians a chance to give their opinions of the government.
•The members of the congress were mainly Western-educated intellectuals.
•They wanted moderate reforms such as the employment of more Indians in the civil service.
•The British were slow in granting reforms and treated Indians as inferior.
•Between the 2 WW, the Congress split into 2 groups.
•One group wanted complete independence
•Other group wanted more reforms through peaceful means. The Leader : Mahatmas K.Gandhi.
•He led the Congres supporters to organise mass demonstration and strikes.
•Under his leadership, the congress struggled for a long time until the country won independence in 1947 .

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Info Unit Test Grade 7A

Info Unit Test Grade 7A

Dear Students of grade 7A

The written test of History will be held on Tuesday, 27 January 2009.
Materials to be tested :
1. Introduction to History.
2. The Decline of Holy Roman Empire.
3. The Rise of National Goverment.
(All materials can be taken from my blog : http://smishistory.blogspot.com)

Rgrds,
Anang P.Setiawan (021-23899927)
History Teacher

Grade 7 : THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM - THE RISE OF NATION-STATES

THE RISE OF NATION-STATES

Anang P.Setiawan

http://smishistory.blogspot.com/

The Decline of the Holy Roman Empire
1. Charlemagne – the fist Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD
2. After Charlemagne died, no other Holy Roman Emperor was strong enough to rule over the states in the empire.
3. On the other hand, the German princes of the states became more powerful individually.
4. By the mid-17th century, every state in the empire, in fact, became independent of the emperor.
5. There was no more unity in Europe.

The Rise of National Government
1. During most of the Middle Ages, there were no strong national governments in Europe.
2. E.g. French was divided into at least 10.000 separate fiefs which were ruled by feudal lords.
3. There were kings, but they had no actual power.
4. In theory, they ruled over the feudal lords, but in practice, the lords often did what they wanted.
5. By the end of the Middle Ages, a number of nation-states had gradually grown.
6. A nation-state was built when a group of people, who spoke a single language, shared the same religion and had the same cultural origin, united to form a country under a central government.
7. In a nation-state, the nobles were no longer powerful. Instead, the king was strong, and he ruled by setting up a central government.
8. 15th and 16th centuries – trade expanded and cities grew rapidly.
9. A new class of merchants, the borgeoisie, developed in the cities.
10. They needed law and order for trade.
11. They needed a safer and more efficient transport system.
12. Feudal lords were unable to provide what the people needed.
13. Lords fought among themselves, and this made them weak.
14. The feudal system was inadequate for the changing European societies.
15. The bourgeoisie and the people support the kings because strongs kings could provide a more efficient government to protect the people.
16. Kings collected taxes from the merchants and in exchange, they protected their property.
17. With money, the kings hired professional soldiers and civil servant to serve them.
18. It made the nobles and knights less important.

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Grade 8 : INDIA (Part 1)

INDIA -PART 1

Anang P.Setiawan

http://smishistory.blogspot.com/

WESTERN IMPACT ON SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA (INDIA - Part 1)

1500s – The Europeans first entered South and Southeast Asia.
1511 – Portuguese forces captured Malacca in Malaya (today Malaysia)
In the Late 1500s – Spain gained control of Philippines.
In the early 1600s – Dutch took over the islands that make up Indonesia
1800s – Great Britain began ruling India, Burma, Singapore, and most of present day Malaysia.
In the Late 1800s – French took over Indochina (today Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam)
1898 – United States acquired the Philipphines from Spain.
Only Siam (today Thailand escaped colonial rule)

The Indian Society
In the 16th and 17th centuries : India was ruled by the Mogul Empire.
The territory was divided into many states.
Each was ruled by a tribal chief or a prince.
Most people were Hindus. They spoke Hindi with many dialects.
Some customs were terrible : e.g. A woman had to be burnt alive with the body of her dead husband (suttee)

East India Company (CIE)
In 1600 – EIC was established by a group of English merchants and has a monopoly over trade with India granted by the British Government.
It was also given the power to govern and defend itself.
During the 1600s – established trading ports and forts at Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.
The mid 1700s – Mogul Empires had lost its power.
Then CIE became a territorial power and control over India.
Later, the British government discovered the corrupt activities of the company officials.
In 1773 – Parliament passed an Act to bring the company under partial government supervision.
The government appointed a Governor-General to rule the territory of the company.

Era of Reforms
Warren Hastings – The first Governor-General of India set up a board of revenue in Calcuta to collect revenue.
Lord William Bentinck, another Governor General introduced a series of reforms between 1828-1835 :
Reduced expediture on the civil and military services.
Employed some Indians in higher government post.
Founded the Calcutta Medical College and made English as the medium of instruction and the official language.
Abolished suttee and the killing of female babies.
Introduced Westen technology such as roads, canals and railways.
Lord Dalhousie governed India between 1848 and 1856.
He created the Public Works Department and bulit more roads, canals, and railways.
He introduced the Widow Remarriage Act which legalized the remarriage of Hindu widows.
He made the parliament pass an Act which reduced the power of EIC.

The Indian Mutiny
The introduction of Westen Innovations disturbed the lifestyle of Indian people
They developed anti-British feelings.
Sepoys (indian soldier) were treated badly and paid low wages as compared with British soldiers.
In 1857, the Indian people, led by sepoys rebelled against the British.
The rebel seized the area between the Punjab and Bengal.
The rebellion was put down in 1858

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Task for Grade 7A and 7B : Making a Biography

Task : Making a Biography
Grade 7A : Submit it on Wednesday, 13rd January 2009.
Grade 7B : Submit it on Wednesday, 20th January 2009.

Note : I will not accept it after the dateline mentioned above.

Rgrds,
Anang P.Setiawan
021-23899927

GRADE 7-UNIT 1 : An Introduction to History

S.S : HISTORY
GRADE 7
UNIT 1 : An Introduction to History
Presented by : Anang P.Setiawan

A. What is History?
When we study History, we want to find out :
a) What happened.
b) When it happened.
c) Where it happened.
d) Why it happened.
e) To whom it happened.
f) What its consequences were.

What is history, then?
“It’s the record and the study of the past human events that have shaped the way the world is today.”
It could be the study of the past of the small group or a whole country.

B. Why study History?
a) Why should I study history?
b) Why should I care about events that have already happened?

1. Understanding change and how our society came to be.
Everything that exists today has come out of the past. No matter how new or unusual something seems to be, it is the product of earlier ideas and things.

History helps us to understand why things are the way they are today.

2. Learning from past successes and failures
History is full of true stories about real people – heroes, bad guys and ordinary people like us. It is also about real experiences – great successes and equally great failures.

When studying stories of success, we will come across many hardworking, courageous and creative people. We can see them as role models. Conversely, in many past failures, we may see instances of poor planning or a lack of perseverance that we should try to avoid.

3. Understanding and respecting one another
People in the past did many things differently from us. Sometimes, when we read or hear about their lives. We may think, “They were so backward then!”.

We must understand that people in the past lived under very different conditions. Thus, we have to put ourselves in their shoes in order to understand why and how they did the things that they did.

In appreciating the fact that people in the past lived in an environment very different from ours today, we learn to understand and respect others who did things differently from us.

4. Developing our critical thinking skill
Studying history is not about memorising what we have been told – it requires us to investigate the past.

Studying history trains us not to accept everything we read or hear as the truth. Instead, it trains us to use our critical thinking skills to get the full picture of the past.

What it means?
a) Change : a process by which something has become different over time.
b) Continuity : a process by which someething has remained the same over time.
c) History : the record and the study of past human events that have shaped the way the world is today.
d) Evidence : information given to prove a point or to verify the accuracy of a statement.

Note : History is not the study of the lives of individuals. That would be called biography. Rather, history examines the past of groups of people who form a society.

Now, I understand :
a) What history is
b) Why it is important to study history.

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