Contact & Conquest Paper Rubric

For the sake of continuity and clarity, we will be using a rubric which is nearly identical to the one we used for the 2nd quarter essay.

Today's Frame

How did the Mongols and Turks from Central Asia conquer and then rule much of Eurasia and parts of Europe?  And... what was the overall impact?

Outlines Due Soon

Please begin researching your essays using the online databases.  If at all necessary, free Internet sources must be credible and approved by me or a librarian.  Outlines will be due next week (see yoru syllabus).

The Unit 8 syllabus has been posted.

Today's Frame

How did the transatlantic slave trade impact both the "New World" and "Old World"?

Today's Frame

Why did the Columbian Exchange represent a profoundly heightened level of global integration of the world after the turn of the 16th century?  Naturally, this includes our "buckets":

• Geography/Environmental factors

• Political development and structures

• Economic systems

• Social structures
• Cultural development and diffusion

Today's Frame

What do the stories about Cortes' conquest of the Aztec and Pizarro's conquest of the Inca tell us about Spanish motives in the "New World"?  Whose voices do we hear- and what connections can be made to Jared Diamond's central thesis in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

Today's Frame

What were the primary motivations for European exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries?