DBQ
Essay: The Impact of European Exploration on America
Theme:
Power, Wealth, and Morality
Directions:
This question is based on the accompanying six documents. The question is designed
to test your ability to work with historical documents. Some of the documents
have been edited for the purposes of the question. As you analyze the
documents, take into account both the source of each document and any point of
view that may be presented in the document.
Historical
Background:
Though accidental, it was Columbus’s discovery of
the New World that catapulted Europe into the Age of Exploration. For various reasons, the competition to
explore and colonize America caused significant social, political and economic
changes between the 15th and 17th centuries.
Task:
Using information from the documents and your
knowledge of history, answer the questions that follow each document in Part A.
Your answers to the questions will help you to write the Part B essay, in which
you will be asked to:
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Describe three changes that occurred in America as a result of European
exploration and colonization
·
Explain whether or not each of these
changes had a positive or negative impact on the Americas
Part
A:
Document
1: “The Columbian Exchange”
1. Using information from the document
complete the chart by identifying two goods that were exchanged between the
continents.
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Goods Brought to America
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Goods Brought to Europe,
Africa and Asia
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2. Using the map, explain TWO negative
exchanges that took place during the Age of Exploration.
Document
2a-b
"
There was then no sickness; they had no aching bones; they had then no high
fever; they had then no smallpox; they had then no abdominal pain; they had
then no consumption; they had then no headache. At that time the course of
humanity was orderly. The foreigners made it otherwise when they arrived
here."
(Chronicle of Chilam Bayam.)
3. According
to the text document above, what was native life like before the Europeans came
to America?
4. Explain
what native life was like after the Europeans came to America.
Document
3:
5. Based on the line graph, identify what
happened to the Native American population in the years of European
exploration?
6. Between which years is the most drastic
change in the Native American population in Mexico?
Document
4:
7. What does the graph above illustrate about
European settlement in the Americas?
8. What was the destination of most enslaved Africans between
1500-1870?
Document
5:
·
Bartolome
de Las Casas claimed that millions had died because the Spanish made gold their
ultimate aim, seeking to load themselves with riches (mercantilist theory) in
the shortest possible time.”
·
Describing
what he had witnessed in the West Indies, Las Casas wrote, "… My eyes have
seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write
…"
9. What was Bartolome de Las Casas witnessing
in America?
10. What economic reason did Las Casas give
for the Spanish destruction of more than forty million people?
Document
6:
“In
this vast and very fertile vineyard of the Indian tribes which they call the Pimas…I
have been able, through the celestial favors of the heavenly saints, to wash
about three hundred Indians in the holy water of baptism… God willing,
hundreds, and later, thousands will be gathered into the most holy Mother
Church… In this charge where I am working, a mission [has] been established,
and many very suitable rooms of a house [have] been built. We are now occupied in the building of a new
church, with the help of some soldiers, and its walls have… happily arisen to a
height of several feet.”
-From
a letter written by Father Kino, June 30, 1687.
Source:
American Journey
11. Based on this document, explain what
change was taking place in the Pima tribe?
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