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US HIST Lesson 2 Exploration
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Lesson 2
Exploration
Warm Up
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Warm Up
Why is it problematic to use the term “primitive” when describing a group of people or a civilization, particularly one that existed for millennia prior to “discovery”?
Just The Facts
The story about the discovery of the Americas is told in many different ways. We are going to look at some different versions of it, and then discuss them.
Just The Facts
Columbus for kids
Columbus for Native Americans
Columbus for Some
Columbus for others
What do YOU think?
What do YOU think?
Turn and chat with two other classmates. What do you know about Columbus and the other explorers? What is their place in history? How can we know what to believe about it?
Academic Skills
How do we know what we know from history? Sources! Sources are very important evidence to support our thesis statements when we are trying to answer a research question. A good source is a direct source! Let's look at some primary sources about the Columbian Exchange.
How to approach a Primary source
Who is writing, why are they writing, and how does their perspective frame the topic? Consider: race, class, gender, religion, profession, time period, region (and anything else you can think of).
How to approach a Primary source
The Requerimiento
The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Codex Tepetlaoztoc, 16th-century
The Requerimiento
"A boat could sail from the Bahamas to Haiti without...
"A boat could sail from the Bahamas to Haiti without a compass or chart, guiding itself solely by the Trail of the dead Indians who had been thrown from the ships."
Bartolome De las Casas
The Spaniards forced their way into Native settlemen...
The Spaniards forced their way into Native settlements, slaughtering everyone they found there, including small children, old men, pregnant women, and even women who had just given birth. They hacked them to pieces, slicing open their bellies with their swords as though they were so many sheep herded into a pen. They even laid wagers on whether they could manage to slice a man in two at a stroke, or cut an individual?s head from his body, or disembowel him with a single blow of their axes. They grabbed suckling infants by the feet and, ripping them from their mothers breasts, dashed them headlong against the rocks."
Bartolome De las Casas
"I ordered that a Lombard and a musket be fired, and the Ki...
"I ordered that a Lombard and a musket be fired, and the King was spell bound when he saw the effect of their force and what they penetrated. When the people heard the shots, they fell to their knees. They brought me a large mask, which had large pieces of gold in the ears and eyes and in other places, which the king himself presented to me. He placed this, along with other jewels of gold, on my head and around my neck. The king was delighted to see me happy and he understood that I desired a great deal of gold."
Christopher Columbus.
The Indians are so naive and so free with their possessio...
The Indians are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say, 'no, To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone.
They would make fine servants. With 50 men, we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
Christopher Columbus
When the infantry squadrons of both armies had attacked the mass of Indians, and they had begun to break under the fire of muskets and crossbows, the cavalry and hunting dogs charged wildly upon them to prevent them re-forming. The Indians fled like cowards in all directions, and our men pursued them, killing so many.
Hernando Colo
When the infantry squadrons of both armies h...
The cost of a woman is 100 Castellanos, the same as that of a farm. The trade is very common and there are now many merchants who go about looking for girls, some of ages nine or ten are now on demand, but whatever their age they command a good price.
Christopher Columbus
The cost of a woman is 100 Castellanos, the same as that ...
CONVO!
The cost of a woman is 100 Castellanos, the same as that ...
- Which of the sources is most striking?
- On what things do all the sources agree, and on what things do they disagree?
- What is the overall picture painted by the sources?
- Whose voices comprise the source material? Whose voices are missing from the source material? Why is it like this?
Some Big Questions
• How do different sources present the arrival of the explorers?
• Is the world better off for having experienced
the Columbian Exchange?
• How did humans benefit from its existence?
How did they suffer from it?
• How can a reader's perspective about an issue be changed by the sources an author chooses to include or leave out?
- Why is there such a difference between what primary sources tell us about the exploration of the Americas and how this exploration is presented in modern culture?