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Resilience, Resistance, or Revolt?

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WORLD HISTORY PROJECTAP/ LESSON 6.3 OPENERRESILIENCE, RESISTANCE, OR REVOLT?Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “Resilience, Resistance, or Revolt”, OER Project, https://www.oerproject.com/1PurposeWhat does an armed rebellion have in common with cutting tails off live rats? Both were attempts to ward off colonial rule. some techniques were pretty straightforward, but others were more subtle. This activity will help you keep an open mind about how we define resistance in the context of imperial expansion and colonial rule.Process1.Write definitions—in your own words—of resilience, resistance, and revolt.WordIn your own words, what does this mean?ResilienceResistanceRevolt
WORLD HISTORY PROJECT AP / LESSON 6.3 OPENERRESILIENCE, RESISTANCE, OR REVOLT?22.For each scenario, decide whether you think it the response should be considered resilience, resistance, or revolt. Be prepared to give reasons for your choices.People responded to imperial expansion and colonial rule by...Resilience? Resistance? Revolt?Write your choice belowrefusing to sell land or relocate when offered money or other deals by colonizing empires.moving around too frequently to be accounted for by colonial record-keepers in order to avoid forced labor and taxation.seizing weapons and funds from the colonizers, executing colonial officials, and then fleeing to the countryside where it would take longer for the colonizers to reclaim control.using the western education forced on them by European colonizers to assist them in forming nationalist parties, dedicated to spreading ideas of self-rule.continuing to practice their own religions, despite colonial missionary teachings.engaging in boycotts of European goods, and halting other economic work/activity to limit the colonizers’ profit gain.stealing items from the colonizers that represented colonial authority over the indigenous people.