Objectives
- Describe the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Evaluate how Colombus made contact with native people.
Agenda
- Warm-Up #10: Log in & wait for Mr. M's audio clip. Based on the audio, describe what life was as a slave being transported across the Atlantic.
- PowerPoint: Age of Exploration
- Slave Trade
- Reading - Lies My Teacher Told Me
- What's the first mistake textbooks make about Columbus' significance?
- Loewen argues textbooks downplay economic and religious motives for European conquest; suggesting they reflect badly on "us" - who is "us"?
- What problem does he suggest this lets "fester"?
- List at least three things from the "collective story" of Columbus that Loewen calls into question.
- What does Loewen say about Columbus' supposed tragic end? Cite at least two specific examples from the text.
- Describe the men and supplies provided by Ferdinand & Isabella for Columbus' second voyage.
- Why did he need so much for this new mission?
- How did Columbus ensure cooperation?
- Describe the "Reign of terror in Hispaniola"
- How did the Arawak population vary from 1492 to 1555.
- How did Columbus' writings about the Arawaks become increasingly racist?
- Why does Loewen believe racism helped promote this exploitation?
- What are the problems with a textbook glorifying Columbus?
