During this unit of study, students will look for various ways that European Monarch's power shifted overtime after the Age of Exploration. Students will identify the important monarchs and evaluate their successes and failures. They will learn the specific details of why we continue to study each of the rulers and their impact on history. "Legacy study of the European Monarchs." Students will tackle the issue of identifying the important monarchs and then going into great depths to study individuals through the scope of biographical research and development. They will also put themselves in the place of a news reporter at that time and try and recap the events through the eyes of the subjects under each of the monarchs in power.
Unit 2: Essential Questions
How did early explorations influence history?
Why was the spread of Christianity important?
What were the effects of the Columbian Exchange?
How did the interactions between colonizers and native peoples impact how each were seen world-wide?What are the lasting impacts of European colonization?
Why was the spread of Christianity important?
What were the effects of the Columbian Exchange?
How did the interactions between colonizers and native peoples impact how each were seen world-wide?What are the lasting impacts of European colonization?
Unit 2: Enduring Understandings
- As Europeans explored, they came into contact with other races of people, whom they exploited for commercial gain. This resulted from and reinforced racism and an attitude of white supremacy.
- Advances in technology helped make exploration possible.
- The effects of colonization on native people. (Spanish and Portuguese in Latin and South America and other European countries in North America.)
- The triangular trade had an important and devastating impact on enslaved Africans in the Americas as well as on the West African culture and population.
- The Colombian Exchange and its negative and positive effects.
- Is Columbus a hero or villain?