When you are done, please send your responses to me by email. You have until 11pm on Thursday, March 5 to send your responses. Have a nice Spring Break, all of you.
1) What was the Great Dying? Was this a genocide? Was it a cultural genocide? In what other ways did it have long term impacts on the native societies of the Americas?
2) Why did Europeans come to the Americas, and what advantages did they have over potential competitors & over native peoples? Cite approximately 6 reasons in your answer.
3) Briefly describe the feminist movement and the abolition movement. What did they have in common? How and why did they collaborate?
4) Strayer describes three products – sugar, silver and fur. Choose one. In what way does the product you've chosen demonstrate trade relationships that arose during the early modern period?
5) What was the significance of the Scientific Revolution? Describe 2 inventions or discoveries and how they impacted the direction of European society.
6) What were the “Atlantic revolutions”? Describe two in detail and describe what they had in common with each other. Did they meet their goals?
7) Discuss the significance of the Indian Ocean trade network within the Afro-Eurasian world of the early 1400s.
8) What were the three ways Europeans tried to get in on that Indian Ocean trade before they began plundering in the Americas?
9) Strayer describes the “echoes” of Atlantic revolutions; these echoes include the echoing of Enlightenment ideas such as freedom. Describe how the idea of freedom has echoed across the Atlantic, starting with the Enlightenment in France and continuing into the 21stcentury.
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