Centers and Peripheries George Bancroft- Not officially a historian Charles Austin Beard- Officially historian Bancroft: Philosophical ideals Beard: Economic Determinism Sources- Primary(he looks into documents(constitution)) ‚ Secondary(Books he wrote about)‚ All suspicious (victims to their own prejudice) Fredrick Jackson Turner “The aim of history‚ then ‚ is to know the elements of the present by understanding Analysis (SPEC) Social Political Economic Cultural
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Lecture Two: Early Settlement of North America I. The Vikings: First European Visitors to the New World: --Vikings: groups of seafaring warriors from Scandinavia region (modern day Sweden‚ Norway‚ Denmark) most of them small farmers. --Between 750-1050 A.D. clans and family groups unite and begin raiding expeditions to Russia and Western Europe in search of agricultural produce and other riches. --By the end of the first millennia AD (late 9th century-10th century) a small group of
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Chapter 1 Outline I. The Shaping of North America A. About 225 million years ago‚ a single supercontinent contained the entire world’s dry land and later enormous chunks began to drift away. B. Continuous shifting and folding of the earth’s crust formed the Appalachians‚ Rockies‚ and other huge mountain ranges. C. The Great Ice Age hits the world and when it retreated‚ it left the entire landscape of North America changed forever. II. Peopling the Americas A. Land Bridge theory 1. Occurred
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World were getting in their way. They soon initiated a campaign of systematic anhilation of the Natives. Conquistadors soon flocked from Spain to rid the world of these savages. Soon‚ Hernan Cortez had conquered Mexico and the Aztecs‚ while Francisco Pizarro conquered Peru and the Incans. The Spanish armory was far greater then that of the Indians‚ but these explorers had another weapon far more superior. The weapon they had was known as disease‚ which included the Small Pox and measles. Their prize for
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In 1533‚ Atahuallpa‚ emperor of the Incas was presented to Conquistador Francisco Pizarro on a golden throne accented with the feathers of exotic birds. Upon meeting‚ Atahuallpa was asked cast away his religion for Christianity and accept the King of Spain as his ruler. When he refused‚ he was taken prisoner and eventually killed. His gold was sent back to Spain‚ and his people were enslaved. Why is it that the Spanish conquered the Incas and not the other way around? UCLA geology professor and Pulitzer
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colonization around 1492. The most famous exploration was Christopher Columbus’. He was attempting to find a direct route to India by going westward. Instead of finding India‚ he landed in the Caribbeans. He opened up the horizons for the likes of Pizarro and Cortes to come into the Americas and begin conquest. They used the
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Francisco Pizarro captured the last Incan
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In the history of language teaching‚ many methods and approaches have been used and developed. Among them ‘Communicative Language Teaching’ is now thought as the most influential or must-use one. It is clearly defined in the handout: “It would be fair to say that if there is any one umbrella approach to language teaching that has become the accepted "norm" in this field‚ it would have to be the Communicative Language Teaching Approach.” Below is a lesson plan which is based on the CLT approach
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Until the 12th and 13th centuries‚ cross-cultural interactions were unprolonged and less in number when compared to later centuries. However‚ the assimilation of much of the Eurasian landmass into the Mongol empire as well as the later European exploration of the Americas contributed to the creation of prolonged global connections in which the world’s major continents were connected. Two of the most notable developments include the caravel‚ which aided European explorers in their conquest of the
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Tempest: T h e Mastered Self N E A R T H E E N D of Shakespeare’s career stands a simple play not of self-loss but of self-gain. Shakespeare m a y well have intended it to have been his final one; it is difficult to think of Henry VIII as anything but an afterthought. A comedy or a tragicomedy‚ of course‚ was expected to present an action that moved toward self-gain; and the romances Shakespeare wrote dur ing his last phase‚ Pericles‚ Cymbeline‚ The Winter’s
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