PART 1

Please read the two separate documents with excerpts from the writings of Yukichi Fukuzawa. Answer the following questions in brief (2-3 sentences) paragraphs.

1. What does Yukichi find admirable in Western culture and why?

2. What surprises Yukichi about Western people and culture?

3. What do you think guides Yukichi’s approach to understanding the West and what is his overall impression of the West?

PART 2

· What political, economic, and social crises swept through the world in the 19th century? What impact did they have on different regions of the world?

· How did new cultural forms at the turn of the century (fin-de-siecle) reflect challenges to the world order as it then existed?

· In what ways did race, nation, and religion unify populations but also make societies more difficult to govern and economies more difficult to manage?