The Story of China - Episode 5: The Last Emperor

This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on the PBS documentary series “The Story of China - Episode 5: The Last Empire.”

You will receive a Video Response Worksheet and Key in PDF format.

Video Response Worksheets will turn your history lesson into a rich educational experience that keeps students attentive, engaged, and accountable. The questions are designed so that they occur at a regular pace to keep the students engaged but not overloaded. They are also designed so that a review of the completed worksheet gives students a basic overall summary of the video.

This episode is approximately 55 minutes long.

From the producer:

SERIES DESCRIPTION: Traveling from the Silk Road to the Yellow Sea, Michael Wood explores the history of the world’s newest superpower. A thrilling and moving epic of the world’s oldest continuous state with the landscapes, peoples, and stories that made today’s China.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Michael Wood tells the dramatic tale of China’s last empire, the Qing. In the 18th century China was the biggest economy in the world, and with that prosperity came a fabulously rich culture. From China’s favorite novel, to opera and storytelling houses, and all-women’s mosques, it’s an age full of surprises. But then came the fateful clash with the British in the First Opium War, the beginning of the end of the empire.