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Unit 1 ~ Till 1607 Making Arguments From Images Every group has been assigned a category for analysis: Political, Economic, Social, Environmental, or Cultural (P; E c ; S; E n ; C; aka ‘PESEC’). Student Instructions: Search through the following pages. Locate the best images that allow you to make arguments that comment on history till 1607 through your individual PESEC category. Select a range of images you will present to the class (3- 7). You will create a presentation for the class focused on using images to analyze aspects of history in the Americas up to 1607. Use those images to explain history with a focus on your PESEC category. Essential Questions P Group: What does this image reveal about Politics? E c Group: What does this image reveal about Economics? S Group: What does this image reveal about Social organizations? E n Group: What does this image reveal about human-Environment interactions? C Group: What does this image reveal about Cultures? Your presentation will be a PowerPoint during which you show classmates the images you selected while explaining what conclusions can be made about each image regarding your PESEC category of analysis.
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Source: Theodor de Bry “The New Queen”, an engraving by made from a 16 th c drawing by Jacque le Moyne, a French colonist in Florida. In terms of politics: This tribe shows a matriarchy or matriarchal tendencies allowing females power. This Indian queen is revered and rules over this tribe. Warfare. In terms of society: This image shows hierarchy. Socially this women has higher status than other women. It also shows matriarchy in that she is a powerful woman. Example of an Image and PESEC analysis
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Source: “The Village of Secoton” by English artist John White, 1585-1586.
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Source: Map of the Aztec capital Tenotchtitlan published with a collection of letters from Hernan Cortes in 1524.
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Source: A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon in present-day New Mexico.
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Source: English artist John White portraying ten male and seven female Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.
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Source: Depiction of Spanish and Native Americans, 1621.
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Source: Map of Native American ways of life, ca.1500.
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Source: Engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a 16 th century painting of Florida Indians by French colonist Jacques Le Moyne.
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Source: An engraving of an Iroquois longhouse by a French Jesuit, seventeenth-century.
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Source: Columbus’s Landfall, a Spanish engraving from a pamphlet, 1493.
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Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16 th century.
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Source: English artist John White portraying Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.
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Source: Paintings by Mexican artist Andrés de Islas, 18 th century. ↑ ‘mestizo’ child↑ ‘castizo’ child ‘coyote’ child → ← ‘chino’ child
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Source: A banner carried by Spanish troops led by Cortes, 16 th century.
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Source: Engraving by Dutch Protestant Theodor de Bry depicting the Spanish and Indians in Cuzco (present-day Peru) in 1532.
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