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Intercultural Contact

Intercultural Contact. Agenda. Recap from last class Intercultural Contact Video – Travel, Trade, and Exploration Perspective Taking Intercultural Contact Interviews. 1) Recap from Last Class. What did we do last class? Outcome Check

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Intercultural Contact

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  1. Intercultural Contact

  2. Agenda • Recap from last class • Intercultural Contact • Video – Travel, Trade, and Exploration • Perspective Taking • Intercultural Contact Interviews

  3. 1) Recap from Last Class • What did we do last class? • Outcome Check • Most did well. We still need to work on what humanism is. • Expansionism and Imperialism • What is expansionism? • What is imperialism? • Explorer’s Log

  4. 2) Intercultural Contact • Today’s big question: • 8.2.4.7 - In what ways did exploration and intercultural contact during the Renaissance affect the citizenship and identity of Europeans? • Focus Questions: • What is intercultural contact? • How does intercultural contact change the Europeans? • How does intercultural contact change the indigenous peoples?

  5. 2) Intercultural Contact • What is intercultural contact? • What led to intercultural contact? • How did expansionism influence intercultural contact? • How did imperialism influence intercultural contact?

  6. 2) European Perspective • Europe’s imperialist nations thought they had the right to control the colonies. • Cultural and political superiority. • Indigenous peoples and their cultures were usually not viewed as their equals. • They were seen as barbarous or savages.

  7. 2) Indigenous Perspective • Have never seen these large ships or fair skinned people before. • Indigenous cultures had established diverse and complex societies. • Europeans had little regard for these indigenous peoples and their cultures. • Perspective is often missed because many indigenous books and histories were burnt.

  8. 2) Columbian Exchange • To Europe: • Fruits and Vegetables (squash, potatoes, peppers, corn, pineapples) • Tobacco • Cacao • Vanilla • Rubber • Dyes • Pharmaceutical plants

  9. 2) Columbian Exchange • To the Americas: • Fruits and Vegetables (onions, olives, bananas, citrus) • Grains (wheat, rice, barley, oats) • Livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs, horses) • Weapons • Disease (smallpox, influenza, typhus, measles)

  10. 3) Intercultural Contact • What are some positive impacts of intercultural contact? • What are some negative impacts of intercultural contact? • In what ways does this change the lives of Europeans? • In what ways does this change the lives of Indigenous people?

  11. 3) Video • Renaissance - Travel, Trade, and Exploration • http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/aeve/movieLauncher.html?movie=smil/rennaissance_trav_trade.mov • As you watch the movie, identify different ways that intercultural contact changed Europe and the indigenous peoples.

  12. 4) Perspective Taking

  13. 5) Intercultural Contact Interviews • In groups of 3, work together to conduct an interview. • One person will be a European explorer. • One person will be an Indigenous person. • One person will be an interviewer from todays society. • Conduct questions to discuss the positives/negatives of intercultural contact.

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