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Year 9

The British Empire: how far was it transformed in the mid-nineteenth century?

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  • Empire, persecution and resistance

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In this unit, pupils learn about how the British Empire changed in the mid-nineteenth century. They examine the British Empire in India, Jamaica, East Asia, and Africa and evaluate the extent to which it was transformed during this period.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of empires more generally, built throughout key stages 1, 2 and 3, alongside what they have learnt about the British Empire specifically in both year 8 and 9 where the focus was on the Americas and India. This unit prepares pupils for both the next unit, about the commemoration and contestation of the Empire, and the later year 9 unit about decolonisation in the British Empire.

  1. Social Darwinism and race in the British Empire
  2. The British Empire in India
  3. The British Empire in Jamaica
  4. Gunboat diplomacy and the British Empire in East Asia
  5. The British Empire and the Scramble for Africa
  6. Transformation in the British Empire

  • Pupils know that countries would colonise other countries in order to gain land, money and power.
  • Pupils know that in the early modern and modern periods, many European nations competed to have the largest and most successful empires.
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