#2 Colonization

Ch. 19 & 20

#2 Performance Standards & Specifications:

Analyze and evaluate the actions of competing European nations for colonies around the world and the impact on indigenous populations;

Specifications:

●Include Triangular Trade, Columbian Exchange, Globalization and Middle Passage, negative impact on Native American cultures.

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The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24

1. How many African slaves were forcibly moved from Africa to the Americas?

2. What is one of the biggest misconceptions about the Atlantic slave trade? What was true?

3. How many slaves could a large ship hold and what was the average space per human?

4. What was the average life expectancy of Brazilian plantation slaves in the 18th Century

5. Why was the percentage of slaves imported from Africa to the United States relatively small?

6. Who said, “It is clear that there are certain people who are free, and certain people who are slaves by nature, and it is both to their advantage and just for them to be slaves?”

7. What are two ideas vital to Atlantic slave trade?

Conceptual Thinking

1. What are some of the ways in which you still see impacts of the Atlantic slave trade in the world today? How are these examples connected?

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The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course World History #23

1. John immediately lists a number of thing that occurred because of the Columbian Exchange. What are they?

2. Due to the Columbian Exchange, Europeans introduced new diseases to American populations, which resulted in death. About how many natives died from exposure to European diseases?

3. What are some of the side effects of diseases being introduced in the Americas?

4. Aside from venereal disease, what’s the one gift the New World gave to the Old World?

5. What animals brought to the Americas are listed by John as being ‘revolutionary’?

6. What from the Columbian Exchange had perhaps the biggest impact on the world?

7. What happened to the world between 1650 and 1850 CE?

8. In 2005, 58% of corn grown in America was used for what purpose?

Conceptual Thinking

1. At the end of the video, John cites Alfred Crosby’s view on the Columbian Exchange, which are rather bleak, and asks the questions:

Are longer, healthier lives for more humans worth the sacrifice of an impoverished biosphere? And more importantly, how will your conclusions about those questions shape the way you live your life? Given what you know and have just viewed, answer these questions as best as you can.