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Thursday, September 12, 2013 Homework. Copy in your agenda Finish Types of Colonies foldable. Monday, September 16, 2013. Copy and answer the questions. 1.What is the difference between a plantation colony, settler colony and trading post?. European Colonies in the Americas.
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Thursday, September 12, 2013Homework Copy in your agenda Finish Types of Colonies foldable.
Monday, September 16, 2013 Copy and answer the questions. • 1.What is the difference between a plantation colony, settler colony and trading post?
European Colonization Of America
The European Conquest of the Americas
Wednesday, September 18, 2013Homework Copy in your agenda • What Did You Learn? Pg. 26. (Workbook) 1-4 Copy the questions and answer.
The First Spanish Conquests:The Aztecs vs. Fernando Cortés Montezuma II
The First Spanish Conquests: The Incas vs. Francisco Pizarro Atahualpa
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Barron/ Period Writing Prompt Copy the question and answer Summarize what caused Spanish colonization in the Americas and tell the effect it had. (Include your opinion of the way they treated American Indians).
The year is 1520. You are a native American living incentral Mexico, and you are suddenly faced with a decision that may change your life forever. A group of white invaders, known as the Spanish, are engaged in battle with the nearby Aztecs. Many of your friends are joining different sides of the fight. You can choose not to fight at all. However, if you do decide to fight, you must choose a side. What side would you choose? What are the risk involved in supporting the invaders, whom you know almost nothing about? Does the fact that the Aztecs share similar culture and heritage with you make a difference in your decision? What are the advantages / disadvantages of not fighting at all? Bellwork
How? • How were the European able to conquer the Natives and set up colonies? • What made them so powerful? • Gunpowder • Horses • Disease
“Gunpowder makes men tall” “Next to God, We owe Our Victory to our Horses” (Cortes)“It’s not hard to conquer people dying of smallpox”
Smallpox – 1518 Typhus – 1546 - Influenza – 1558 - Diphtheria – 1614 – severe upper respiratory infection Measles - 1618 Diseases brought to the New World
French & Natives • Fur trappers & Catholic missionaries lived among the natives in North America • They learned their language • Respected their way of life
English Economics • Northern Colonies – family run businesses • Southern Colonies – Plantation farms • Rice • Tobacco • Sugarcane
Homework (Extra Credit) Write a one page essay about one of the topics we have watched On Channel One this week. • IDs to track students (John Jay High School): Do you think its right for schools to track students using their ID cards? Explain. • Chicago Teacher Strike: What rights should teachers have and should they be able to strike (protest) to get what they want? • Sports injuries: Over 6,000 middle school/ high school visit the Emergency Room (ER) a day. Have you ever been injured playing a sport? What can be done to prevent those injuries?
Name September 20,2012Barron/Period Writing Prompt Illustrate the Columbian Exchange and explain how it affected life in the New World and Europe.
British Canada, 13 Colonies – Great Britain • New Netherlands (NY) – The Netherlands • New France, Louisiana, Haiti - France • New Spain, Florida, West Indies, Peru – Spain • Brazil – Portugal • Trading posts along coast – Portugal (other • Europeans) • India – Great Britain (forced other Europeans out) • Dutch East Indies (Spice Islands) – Netherlands • The Philippines – Spain • Australia, New Zealand – Great Britain
The area in green (dark) is home to what European language?A) English B) French C) Portuguese D) Spanish
