ROC in Five Acts: Review (an experiment)

Copy and paste into the comment form below, and complete the outline. USE YOUR FIRST NAME AND LAST INITIAL.

Act I: The Warlords
How this happened:

Act II: First United Front: _________ and __________ against  ___________.
How this ended:

Act III: First ________________. ____________ versus _________________.
Highlights:
How this ended:

Act IV: Second ______________. ____________ and ____________ against ____________.
Highlights:
How this ended:

Act V: Second _______________. _______________ beats _____________.
How this ended:

Fall of Qing Review Scramble

This is on the wiki, but in case you missed it. It just scrambles the dates and events of the Qing and hopefully helps you put them in the right sequence by reasoning through the dominoes of cause and effect.

(The obnoxious opening embarrasses me. I was goofing around with A1.
The video full screens if you go to YouTube.)

Wave 4 Crash: Western Imperialism and the Fall of Imperial China

The Mandate of Heaven, the Centralized Bureaucracy, the Confucian world order: they all came to an end after a "Century of Humiliation" in conflict with Europe and America.

I made these two podcasts a couple years ago, and they get good response (and great arguments) from YouTube viewers. The first is short -- only 20 minutes. The second is longer, close to 40. They'll take you from the Macartney embassy to the Opium Wars to the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions.

Ebrey's high school text covers them from page 214 to 231.

Wave 3 Review: Period of Disunity, Sui-Tang Screencasts

These should come in handy come final exam time, if not sooner.

Wave 3, part 1/3: Period of Disunity (220-589)

Part 2/3: Sui and Tang