Presos

Next class: Bring in one quote plus the source from your research next class.

Quiz, Why the West (cont'd), Age of Exploration 1: Asia

Download this Explorations Notes page and use it to take notes.

Read the following pages in World History, Patterns of Interaction about the European Age of Exploration:
Identify the key events and terms -- on paper -- that you should be familiar with as an educated person. List them. We'll agree on terms for another quiz next class:

pp. 529-35
537: Ming relations with foreign countries
539-40: China under the Qing
545-7: Contact between Europe and Japan, Christian Missionaries in Japan

Bloody Reformation again, plus WHY THE WEST--HISTORIANS' POV

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RESEARCH PREP AND CLARIFICATION

Download this file and PUT IT IN A FOLDER LABELED "RESEARCH."
Open it.
Also download this file, "Science Envy."

Religious Reformation in Europe

Seminar:
Group 1:
Bianca
Hanson
Frankie
YeJin
Phillip
Dana
Caitlin
Sid
Zach
Oliver

Group 2: The rest

NEXT:
We're still on "Why the West?"
You've seen a few changes with the Renaissance, but at the same time that was happening, two other major revolutions occurred in Europe:
1. The Protestant Revolution (a.k.a. the Reformation)
2. The Age of Exploration

You will have a 20 question quiz next class--a reading quiz--on the Reformation.
Read closely pp. 488-492, and pp. 498-500. Skim the English reformation and Calvin's in France. Our focus for the quiz is mostly Germany and the Catholic Reformation (a.k.a. the Counter-Reformation).

While you are reading and note-taking however best works for you for the quiz, I will talk to each of you individually about your research questions.

Why the West?

Why the West?
Do Now:
1. List: How Europe Changed during the Renaissance.

2. In 1500, you'll remember that Renaissance Europe was backwards compared to the Muslims and Chinese.

By 1900, Europe will rule the world. Why?

LIST your SIX BEST GUESSES of the FACTORS that allowed Europe to dominate these once-superior civilizations.

WATCH:



Download the Ferguson "Six Killer Apps" transcript here.

• I added the slides to the transcripts in the attached file.
• The Seminar will be brief--20 minutes. 
• Here are the questions:

A. What do you think his strongest arguments are?
B. What do you think his weakest arguments are?
C. Do you see any examples of

1. Bad logic:
1. False cause-effect arguments
2. Avoiding the issue / omitting key information
3. Arguing from ignorance (making a claim that's factually wrong)
2. Bad evidence:
1. Biased sources
2. Unreliable sources
3. Appeals to authority
4. Appeals to "the people" (popularity, "bandwagon" arguments)
5. Appeals to emotion