Wednesday, September 24, 2013

  We will be using several resources in order to answer the journal question and to have a better understanding of European Exploration and its effects on the United States. At the end of this discussion (today or tomorrow), you will write an essay in response to the question. So make sure you pay close attention and write down the information!

  Step One: We’ll do this together in our interactive notebook! Step Two: Also done together in our notebook. Examine each document and answer all questions in your notebook. You do not have to write the questions in your notebook, but you must include the question stem in your answer.

 Step Three: You will describe two effects, positive or negative, resulting from European Exploration in the United States. Refer to at least four of the documents to support your ideas.

 A rubric will be provided on the writing day  Outline ▪ Paragraph One: Topic Sentence, Body: What happened? What was the effect? (Use textual evidence from the documents you have analyzed). Wrap up sentence. ▪ Paragraph Two: Topic Sentence, Body: What happened? What was the effect? (Use textual evidence from the documents you have analyzed). ▪ Wrap Up Sentence.

 The Age of Exploration was a time period that brought two previously isolated worlds together. European explorers caused great and lasting changes for both the Old and the New Worlds. Most would agree that European exploration of the Americas had both beneficial and harmful effects.

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Photo One: Conquistadors cutting the hands of Native Americans for not meeting their gold quota.

Question One: Why did the Spanish cut the hands off of the Natives? Question Two: What was the relationship between the Spaniards and Native Americans at the time of this image?

 Question One: How does this image show the change in lifestyle experienced by the Native population when the Europeans declared the Americas as a colony?

 Question One: How does this image show the lifestyle of Native Americans prior to European Exploration?

 “But even the black death can’t compare to the devastation of the native peoples of North and South America. Hit by wave after wave of multiple diseases to which they had utterly no resistance, they died by the millions. Disease spread from the paths of explorers and the sites of colonization like a stain from a drop of ink on a paper towel. In fact, in North America, disease spread faster than European colonization. When Hernando de Soto explored the Mississippi Valley in the early 1500s he found large, thriving cities connected by trade networks. By the time Rene Robert de La Salle followed de Soto’s footsteps in the 1680s, those cities had evaporated.” - David Walbert: Disease and Catastrophe Question: Why did so many native people die in the Americas after contact with Europeans explorers? Question: What evidence is offered by the author to show that millions of Native Americans died from disease?

 “Three days after I captured this city, some of the Indians who lived here came to offer to make peace. They bought me some turquoises and poor mantles, and I received them in His Majesty’s name with as good a speech as I could, making them understand the purpose of my coming to this country, which is, in the name of His Majesty and by the commands of Your Lordship, that they and all others in this province should become Christians and should know the true God for their Lord…” – Coronado’s Report to Viceroy Mendoza- August 3, 1540 Question: According to Coronado’s report, what was the purpose of his coming to North America?

 “I gave to them some red caps, and to others glass beads, which they hung about their necks, and many other things of slight value, in which they took much pleasure…They all go quite naked as their mothers bore them. None of them more than 30 years old, very well built, of very handsome bodies and fine faces. They ought to be good servants and of good skill, for I see that they repeat very quickly whatever is said to them” – Christopher Columbus, October 12, 1492 Question: What qualities does Christopher Columbus describe in the Natives? Question: How does Columbus view his future relationship with them?

  Which voyage looks like it took the longest amount of time? Why?

What are some of the main reasons that the explores wanted to go on these expeditions?

 http://www.phschool.com/atschool/ahon/histor y_interactive/mvl-1021/common_player.html

 Question: What types of good were exchanged between the Old World and the New World? Why were they important?  Question: How did the Columbian Exchange impact society in the old world and the new world?

 What is this map showing? What were some positive and negative effects of Triangular Trade/

  Question One: What trends do you notice in the chart above? Question Two: What country seemed to have the most power during the time periods noted ion this chart?

 What does this graph show? Why is this important information?

 What were some of the original goals of the European Explorers?