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Ch. 16-22
Essential Questions
1. To what extent did technological and cultural developments within human societies result in the "globalizing" of communication and exchange networks between 1450-1750?
2. In what ways did the communication and exchange networks during this era reflect changes from and continuities with exchange networks in the previous period of world history?
3. To what extent did Europe become predominant in the world economy during this period? Why?
Objectives:
- Determine the causes and consequences of the Ming Treasure Ship Voyages.
- Trace the effects of the intensification of trade networks, including the centuries of information sharing between the Muslim world and Europe on the development of Italian Renaissance art and corruption in the Roman Catholic Church.
- Explain and map the expanding globalized nature of trade networks and the effects of the exchanges that resulted from the new trade networks.
- Analyze the short and long term causes and effects of changes in social structures.
- Explain the causes and effects of changes in the sizes and practices of states.
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Crash Course Episode #21 - Columbus, de Gama, Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners
"The Columbian Exchange has included man, and he has changed the old and new world sometimes inadvertently, sometimes intentionally, often brutally. It is possible that he and the plants and animals he brings with him have caused the extinction of more species of life forms in the last four hundred years than the usual processes of evolution might kill off in a million…The Columbian Exchange has left us with not a richer but a more impoverished genetic pool. We, all of the life on the planet, are the less for Columbus, and impoverishment will increase."
-Alfred Crosby Jr. The Columbian Exchange
1. Do you agree with this? Why?
2. Are longer healthier lives for more humans worth the sacrifice of a impoverished biosphere?
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