Columbian Exchange - Vocabulary List

Columbian Exchange - Unit Outline

Lectures

The Americas Before Colombus

Aztec Religion and Social Structure

Bad Luck of the Winds

Cortés and the Aztecs

Methods and Effects of European Exploration

Assignments

Due Friday 9/9 - Paragraph quick-write on Mexico.

Due Friday 9/9 - Two maps of Mexico, political/geographic and Aztec/Mayan/Tlaxcalan

Due Monday 9/12 - Mexico Current Events research homework

Due Tuesday 9/13 - Civilizations of Mesoamerica worksheet

Due Thursday 9/15 - Group work on Aztec ritual and social practice

Due Monday 9/19 - "American Ritual Cultural Anthropology" extra credit

Due Monday 9/19 - Exploration and Trade Winds Map and questions in pairs

Due Wednesday 9/21 - Questions on Exploration Readings

Due Friday 9/23 - Guns, Germs, and Steel questions

Due Monday 9/26 - Imagine that history had gone somewhat differently and you were Moctezuma. However, you had seen the documentary "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and understood European weapons and diseases. Would you have surrendered immediately to Cortés or fought to the death? Explain your answer.

Due Thursday 9/29 - Mercantilism Game Questions

Due Friday 9/30 - Unit Test

Due Monday 10/17 - Extra Credit - Buy one of the following grammar books:
1. The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker
2. A Pocket Style Manual (Spiral-bound) by Diana Hacker

Readings, Film, and Video

Tenochtitlan: Templo Mayor - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Guns, Germs, and Steel - episode 2 - 2002

Unit Links (not required)

* Teotihuacan

* Mesoamerica

* Maya Civilization

* Aztec

* Human sacrifice in Aztec culture

* Mesoamerica and Central America - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

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