Assignment 4a – Worlds Collide
Oct 25-31 (due – boo!)
AWC II 1617 FRYE
Read Quest Chapter 4; “Mercantilism” [attached]
Terms to take note of… (may appear on a pop quiz of some kind…)
Age of Discovery
Alfonso de Albuquerque
Akbar the Great
Mandarin
daimyo
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortes
conquistadors
Bartolomeo de las Casas
Commercial Revolution
Columbian Exchange
Anglo-French Wars
caravel
Francis Xavier
The Ming
Kangxi
samurai
Treaty of Tordesillas
Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro
peninsulares
mercantilism
creoles
Henry the Navigator
The Mughals
the kowtow
Treaty of Nerchinsk
shogun
F. Magellan
Tenochtitlan
Inca
viceroy
British E. India Company
Swahili
Vasco da Gama
Babur
The Qing
mandate of heaven
Ieyasu Tokugawa
encomienda
Montezuma II
Potosi
mestizos
Bank of Amsterdam
slave factories
Written work This is in the prep [homework] category [30% weighting]
TIP: A 5 point answer should be the equivalent of 1 to 2 paragraphs; a 10 point answer is 2-3 paragraphs.
1. 5 pages minimum of CORNELL NOTES or 5 pages minimum of CARTOON
notes [20]
1 page on Motives for Discovery & the Portuguese
1-2 pages on Mughals, the Ming, the Qing & Japan
1-2 pages on Spanish Exploration & Empire & Columbian Exchange
1 pages on, Commercial Revolution, Africa & Other Empires
2. From the Mercantilism article [and maybe a bit in the
Quest too]: [10]
2a.What was mercantilism?
2b.Why was it a key part of the Commercial Revolution?
2c. What are some problems with it?
3. Read the story of Oluduah Equiano (starts 113). [10]
3a. What did you learn about his life in Africa?
3b. What did he experience at sea and in America?
Or for 3a & 3b you can do ONE page of CARTOON notes
3c. Why is he telling his story? (Include a quote/highlighted
to illustrate your point).
40pos + Xopps Summarize the argument by Las Casas
and compare it to the ideas in Equiano. [+10]