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Unit 6: Conflict and Change A study in the uses and abuses of power Case Study: Conquistadors Lesson: #11. Essential Question: Why is there conflict? How can conflict bring two societies closer together? Is it in human nature to dominate? Can one person make a difference?
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Unit 6: Conflict and ChangeA study in the uses and abuses of powerCase Study: ConquistadorsLesson: #11 Essential Question: Why is there conflict? How can conflict bring two societies closer together? Is it in human nature to dominate? Can one person make a difference? Is one person’s freedom fighter another person’s terrorist? Is fighting ever justified?
Reflective Pre-write • Who makes the decisions in your house? • Do you have a say in making decisions in your house? • Do or would you like to have a say in the decision-making? ?
Discussion • Who makes the decisions in your house? • Do you have a say in making decisions in your house? • Do or would you like to have a say in the decision-making? ?
Notes on the Age of Exploration Directions: Write down the main ideas and supporting details while learning about the European Explorers encounters in the Americas.
Discussion • Recall: • Can you remember which empires we have learned about that conquered other lands? • What about empires that created colonies?
Vocabulary Notes • Colonialism: • Imperialism: The complete control of a weaker nation’s social, economic and political life by a stronger nation. • Nationalism: Pride in one’s country or culture. • Imperialism – since ancient times, rulers have built empires by conquering other lands. The area being controlled is known as a “colony,” while the controlling imperial power is called the “mother country.”
Colony What is the relationship like between the colony and the mother country? Mother Country
Discussion • Why might an empire or nation conquer or control another nation?
Notes • Reasons for imperialism: • New technology making it easier to explore new areas. • The need for raw materials and new markets to sell finished manufactured goods. • Demonstrate power, prestige, and national superiority over other nations. • Competition between European nations for territory. • Social Darwinism (cultural superiority). Spread Christianity.
Juan Gines de Sepulveda • Read • Write – observations, thoughts and emotions
Juan Gines de Sepulveda • The Spanish have the perfect right to rule these barbarians of the New World who in prudence, skill, virtues and humanity are as infer to Spanish as children to adults or women to men, for there exists between the two as great a difference as between savage and cruel races and the most merciful…You surely do not expect me to recall at length the prudence and talents of the Spanish…And what can I say of the gentleness and humanity of our people, who even in battles after having gained victory put forth their greatest effort and care to save the greatest possible number of the conquered and to protect them from the cruelty of their supposed allies…they have established their nation in such a way that no possess anything individually, neither house nor a field for everything to their masters whom they call kings and by whose whims they live by more than their own and desire of these rulers, possessing no liberty…And fulfillment of all of this under no arms, is a definite sign of the servile and base soul of these barbarians…I do not say to our domination, but to a servitude less harsh as they have been born to slavery and not to a civic and liberal life, who are barbarous and impious and inhuman.
Document Analysis Reflections Directions: As we look at images and read quotes from the natives and explorers, write down important observations (what you see) and thoughts or emotions (what you think/how you feel).
Project Work • Write the script for the News Broadcast
Pre-write • Should one person have the right and/or power to make decisions for another? • What if the person making decisions is “better” informed or educated? Won’t they make “better” decisions? • Would you want someone to make decisions for you? • Should the European Conquistadors make decisions for the natives? Why or why not?
Discussion • Should one person have the right and/or power to make decisions for another? • What if the person making decisions is “better” informed or educated? Won’t they make “better” decisions? • Would you want someone to make decisions for you? • Should the European Conquistadors make decisions for the natives? Why or why not?
Rapid Write • WRITE A SOLID PARAGRAPH (at least 6 sentences) • Topic sentence: State your opinion/answer to the question (1 sentence) • Introduce evidence: Where did you get your examples/evidence (1 sentence) • Evidence: Fact (quote/paraphrase) to support your opinion (1-2 sentences) • Discuss: Explain HOW/WHY your examples/evidence support the opinion/answer you wrote in your topic sentence (3 sentences) • QUESTION: Were the European Conquistadors “helping” the natives? Did the European Conquistadors know “better” than the natives? Explain. • (According to whose perspective? Think about difference in perspective)
