(4/15-4/19) Week 4 Agenda-4

Monday April 15

• Objective: To explain why certain areas of the world were more likely to allow for the growth of empires, and the development of key technology. Also, to begin to understand and be able to explain how key economic systems allowed Europeans to profit so greatly off of their colonies in the Americas.
• Entry:
• Activity: 
  • Comparison: New Economic Systems

Tuesday April 16

• Objective: To begin to understand and be able to explain how key economic systems allowed Europeans to profit so greatly off of their colonies in the Americas.
• Entry:
  • How did Europeans view indigenous populations around the world?
  • How did these views impact the way they governed their colonies?
• Activity: 
  • Complete the assignment Comparison: Economic Systems

Wednesday April 17/ Thursday April 18

• Objective: To understand and explain the relationship of Capitalism and the chattel slavery along with how those systems impact the societies of American colonies and European states.
• Entry:
  • What is Credit?
  • The article states that the rise of credit in Europe led to the creation of the middle class and nation states; how?
• Activity:
  • Crash Course: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Links to an external site.
  • Capitalism and Slavery

Friday April 19

• Objective: To understand and explain the relationship of Capitalism and the chattel slavery along with how those systems impact the societies of American colonies and European states.
• Entry:
  
  • Based on our knowledge from this unit so far, do you think capitalism and slavery were competing systems or systems that supported each other?
  • Why or why not?
• Activity:
  • Finish Capitalism and Slavery