World History II

Unit 4: Interactions Across the Globe

Chapter 18: New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas

10: Mon, Oct 7, 2024

Please read the chapter and take the quiz by midnight on Mon, Oct 7, 2024.
Please also post in the forum for the day a short essay in response to this question:

Share your notes and questions on changing resources in the New World during the period from 1500-1800.

• How did the changes brought by trade with Europe and by European colonization affect resources in the New World?
• Where were Old and New World people limited or motivated by need for resources?
• Where were resources guarded, controlled, or destroyed?
• What was exported, and what was imported?

Consider:

• Climate and geography
• Agriculture
• Precious metals
• Labor
• The "Columbian Exchange"
• Immaterial resources

Along with your notes, include any questions that you have.

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