The First Global Age

Essential Question:

How did the first ongoing connections between the hemispheres promote change both globally and regionally?

Portrait of a Graduate:

Critical Thinking

Adaptive Perseverance

Learner’s Mindset

Inquiry Question:

To what extent can the Columbian Exchange be considered one of the most important turning points in history?

2. Inquiry Question:

What were the impacts of the Columbian Exchange for people living in different regions and social classes around the world? Why and how were the impacts similar and different?

3. Inquiry Question:

In what ways did societies across the world develop both similarities and differences during this period of increasing global interconnectivity?

How did changes in the environment, demographic changes, and new forms of coerced labor affect some regions of the world more than others?

Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to analyze how global interconnections impacted political systems, trade networks, and the biosphere/environment.

2. Student Outcomes:

Students will understand the role of capitalism on the Columbian Exchange and transatlantic slave trade.

3. Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to evaluate the development of new hierarchies baked upon social class and race during this era, including the transatlantic slave trade.
Students will be able to interpret primary source documents to understand and analyze multiple perspectives of the Black Death, Columbian Exchange, and the transatlantic slave trade.

Skills Demonstrated:

Reading for Content.
Primary Source Analysis.
Image Analysis.
Chart & Graph Reading.
Map Reading.
Determining Cause & Effect.
Examine Varying Perspectives.

Standards:

SS:GE:12:1.2: Demonstrate how mental maps reflect the human perception of places.
SS:GE:12:1.3: Analyze spatial interactions and models of spatial organization.
SS:GE:12:5.4: Examine how the spatial distribution of resources affects patterns of human settlement.
SS:WH:12:1.1: Describe the development of different political systems.
SS:WH:12:1.5: Evaluate the influence of religion on political systems.
SS:WH:12:2.2: Evaluate how military encounters have often led to cultural exchanges.
SS:WH:12:3.5: Consider how art, music, and literature often reflect or influence major ideas, values and conflicts of particular time periods.
SS:WH:12:4.3: Analyze the development and impact of various labor systems.
SS:WH:12:4.5: Consider the relationship between weapons development and political or economic power.

Resources:

[Our Hidden Google Drive Resource link]

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