Section outline

  • THEMATIC FOCUS

    Governance GOV
    A variety of internal and external factors contribute to state formation, expansion, and decline. Governments maintain order through a variety of administrative institutions, policies, and procedures, and governments obtain, retain, and exercise power in different ways and for different purposes.

    LEARNING OBJECTIVE

    Unit 6: Learning Objective C
    Explain how and why internal and external factors have influenced the process of state building from 1750 to 1900.

    HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS

    KC-5.3.III.D
    Increasing questions about political authority and growing nationalism contributed to anticolonial movements.

    KC-5.2.II.C
    Anti-imperial resistance took various forms, including direct resistance within empires and the creation of new states on the peripheries.

    KC-5.3.III.E
    Increasing discontent with imperial rule led to rebellions, some of which were influenced by religious ideas.