Causes and first stages of the conquest
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1
Write the stages of the conquest in a table with years and main events.
Stage 1, 1847–1865: north-western Kokand, Tashkent; stage 2, 1865–1868: actions against Kokand and Bukhara; stage 3, 1873–1879: Khiva and Kokand; stage 4, 1880–1885: Turkmens.
2
Split the causes of the conquest into economic, political and military groups with one example each.
Economic – cotton raw material; political – divisions and internal conflicts of the khanates; military – frontier forts and control of routes.
3
Find Raim, Ak-Mechet and Aulie-Ata on an atlas and say which present-day countries they lie in.
Raim and Ak-Mechet (now Kyzylorda) – Kazakhstan; Aulie-Ata (now Taraz) – Kazakhstan.
4
Why do historians point to several causes for one event? Write your view in two sentences.
Because events arise from a mix of economic, political and military factors; a single cause rarely explains everything. (Free answer.)