Period: 1
Key Concept:
1.2, I: European expansion into the Western Hemisphere generated intense social, religious, political, and economic competition and changes within European societies.
Do Now: Annotate the Passages that are on the table I have given you.
Agenda
Tonight's Reading:
Key Concept:
1.2, I: European expansion into the Western Hemisphere generated intense social, religious, political, and economic competition and changes within European societies.
- A. European nations’ efforts to explore and conquer the New World stemmed from a search for new sources of wealth, economic and military competition, and a desire to spread Christianity.
- B. The Columbian Exchange brought new crops to Europe from the Americas, stimulating European population growth, and new sources of mineral wealth, which facilitated the European shift from feudalism to capitalism.
- A. Mutual misunderstandings between Europeans and Native Americans often defined the early years of interaction and trade as each group sought to make sense of the other. Over time, Europeans and Native Americans adopted some useful aspects of each other’s culture.
- B. As European encroachments on Native Americans’ lands and demands on their labor increased,native peoples sought to defend and maintain their political sovereignty, economic prosperity,religious beliefs, and concepts of gender relations through diplomatic negotiations and military resistance.
Do Now: Annotate the Passages that are on the table I have given you.
Agenda
- Columbus on Trial
- Period 9 Test & Daily Quiz of Doom
Tonight's Reading:
- Question #4. pp. 40-43.
- PERIOD 2 PACKET Part 1: pp. 43-45