Module 7

Week 7            Western expansion & globalization. Quiz 3Worksheet on WW Chapters 13-18.

(Jun 22-26)     Due:    Module 7, WW Intro to Part 5, Ch 16 (Atlantic Revolutions),
      Ch 17 (Revolutions of Industrialization), Ch 18 (Colonial Encounters)

This week, we continue to come closer to a world you’ll begin to recognize. 

You’ll get foundational knowledge about European colonialism and perhaps a better understanding of how white supremacist concepts grew hand in hand with the colonial endeavor. We are living through times when many people want to dismantle those concepts – it helps to know where they came from and how they grew in our specific manifestation of human relationships. 

You’ll also get foundational knowledge about the process of industrialization – another process that many advanced thinkers are now dismantling for the benefit of humanity’s future and that of the planet itself. 

And you’ll get foundational knowledge about the core founding values of the United States, which arose from the European Enlightenment and traveled to this continent, where they were given an opportunity to grow in the context of our founding documents – the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence – and evolve into the democracy we have today. Freedom and equality are two of those core values, important goals of the “American experiment.” What we mean by those words has changed over time. To whom do they apply? To what aspects of life do they apply? Even this very week, the Supreme Court has weighed in on these questions, and of course the pandemic is challenging ideas relating to personal freedom. And, like industrialization and like the colonial legacy of white supremacy, there are also people today who would like to dismantle parts of our evolved understanding of what it means to be a democracy seeking ever greater progress toward freedom and equality. 

These foundational aspects of the Modern era are so important that I don’t want you to divert your attention to a quiz this week. I’d really like for you to have time to read the chapters and process the weighty information you’ll find there. With that in mind, we will have a Worksheet this week, in lieu of Quiz 3. That’s right, no quiz this week. The Worksheet will include some references to chapters 13-15 from last week, but will primarily focus on the chapters for this week. You’ll make 2 separate blog entries to complete the worksheet and those will be your only blog entries for this week.

I will be reading your Annotated Bibliographies and will reply to each of you individually with comments and feedback. The assignment sheet for your letter, the second part of your research assignment, will be attached to that email.

Here’s the worksheet for this week:

Summer World History – Quiz 3àWorksheet for Module 7 (replaces Quiz 3)

Let’s not give you test anxiety this week. This is an open book worksheet for you to complete as you read your chapters. It also contains some questions relevant to last week’s reading. But it is not a quiz. Please answer all 10 questions and post to your blog.

NOTE: YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE 2 SEPARATE BLOG POSTS TO COMPLETE THIS WORKSHEET. POST YOUR RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS 1-9 FIRST, THEN POST YOUR RESPONSE TO QUESTION 10 SEPARATELY.

1) What was The Great Dying? Cite examples and details from the historical record in your response. Could this be considered a genocide? Why/ why not?

2) What did native Siberians and native Americans have in common in terms of their experiences with Europeans during the early Modern period?

3) Discuss the history and impact of the Indian Ocean trade network (the Sea Roads) from the Classical to Modern periods.

4) Look at the pie chart titled “The Destinations of Slaves” on page 627 of our textbook. What might people find surprising about the percentages of slaves who disembarked in different parts of the Americas? What factors explain why the percentages were this way?

5) What does Strayer mean by the “echoes of Atlantic Revolutions”? Cite examples and details from the historical record in your response. Are the Atlantic Revolutions still echoing in the 21^stCentury?

6) What did feminists and abolitionists have in common? How and why did they sometimes work together?

8) What was the Industrial Revolution? Where and when did it begin? Discuss its long-term significance to people, cities and the planet.

9) Chapter 18 contains some powerful images. Why do you suppose Strayer chose to include these specific images? How do they illustrate concepts introduced in this chapter? Choose one image and a) describe it, b) explain how it illustrates a concept from the chapter, and c) give your general thoughts about the image, as you might do in the context of a small in-class discussion group. The images you can choose from are (your version of the textbook may use different titles and page numbers):

            An American View of British Imperialism (p.790)

            European Racial Images (p.791)

            Map 18.2 Conquest and Resistance in Colonial Africa (p.796)

            Colonial Violence in the Congo (p.803)

            The Educated Elite (p.815)

REMEMBER, QUESTION 10 SHOULD BE IN A SEPARATE BLOG POST (BECAUSE YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO COMPLETE IT UNTIL YOU’VE READ SOMEONE ELSE’S ANSWER TO QUESTION 9)

10) Find a classmate’s posting for Question 9. How would you respond to your classmate’s comments if you were participating in an in-class small group discussion about the image?