History of the Ancient and Medieval World Beyond Europe Walsingham Academy Mrs. McArthur Room 111

The Scientific Revolution Nationalism Indigenous Peoples The Reformation The Renaissance The Voyages Of Discovery The Scientific Revolution

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Astrolabe: Paris Observatory (A School Project: Made by 16-year-old) Assignment 1: due Wed. 5/4 Study slides 2-4 and anticipate the questions. Read photocopies: The Search for Spices Conquest in the Americas Spanish and Portuguese Colonies Using complete sentences, answer 6 Review Questions Follow link and read. Astrolabe: Paris Observatory (A School Project: Made by 16-year-old)

Assignment 2: due Thurs., 5/5 Read text, pp. 477-481 Complete Graphic Organizers: Spanish Colonies in America, Empires in the Americas. A Missionary Protests How does the painting of the mine (pp. 477) at Potosí reinforce Las Casas’s view? The picture shows the enormous scale of the silver mines with humans forced to work like ants.

Turbulent Centuries in Africa Struggle for North America Assignment 3: due Fri. 5/6 Read photocopies: Turbulent Centuries in Africa Struggle for North America Changes in Europe Using complete sentences, answer 6 Review Questions Native village (North Carolina) as seen by artist John White of Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, 1585

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Assignment 4: due Mon. 5/9 Read text, pp. 491-497 Define mercantilism, capitalism. Complete Graphic Organizers: Recognize Sequence. Explain how Tulipmania reflected the economic changes of its time. Uniting the World How do the visuals on pp 491 reinforce the idea that Smith expresses?

TULIPMANIA was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. At the peak of tulip mania in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble (or economic bubble), The term "tulip mania" is now often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble (when asset prices deviate from intrinsic values). A tulip, known as "the Viceroy", displayed in a 1637 Dutch catalog. Its bulb cost between 3000 and 4200 florins depending on size. A skilled craftsman at the time earned about 300 florins a year