- What is the Hegelian Dialectic? What does it explain and how does it lead to a belief in progress?
- Where do modern historians think Native Americans originally came from and how? What evidence do modern historians have for their beliefs?
- What are the similarities of how Cortez conquered the Aztec and Pizarro conquered the Inca? What advantages did Pizarro have that Cortez didn’t?
- Why did Columbus believe sailing to the west to Asia was possible when others thought it wasn’t? What did most educated navigators believe about the western route? What happened in Spain that allowed the Spanish to support Columbus’ expedition?
- Why, according to Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, were the Europeans so much more advanced than the Native Americans?
- The journals from the Hernando de Soto expedition of 1539, in what is now the southeast United States, reported seeing thousands of Indians. When La Salle visited the same area in 1682 he reported seeing few people. Discuss the explanation offered in class and on the DVD Guns, Germs, and Steel about what happened between de Soto’s and La Salle’s expeditions.
- Discuss the establishment of Virginia and what Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth had to do with it?
- Discuss the settlement of Jamestown? What did the first settlers hope to find? What finally made Jamestown successful and who was responsible?
- Discuss the conflicts between the Spanish and the Acoma Pueblo Indians in New Mexico. What was the impact on the rest of the Pueblo Indians?
- What was Native American society like in the region where Jamestown was located when the English arrived.
- Indentured servitude was the preferred form for Jamestown’s labor force. Describe indentured servitude, especially the terms of service and treatment of indentured servants. Why was it preferable to chattel slavery in the early years of Jamestown? Why did it eventually give way to other forms of labor.
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