6.4 - Environmental questions

• START HERE: History 2024 class plan

• Heimler's history review guide

• Heimler's History Unit 4 Youtube

• Heimler's History Unit 5 Youtube

• OpenSTAX World History from 1400

• AP World Past Exams

• NotebookLM AP World notebook

• APWorld Timeline (fiveable)

• #hw (hist) Read history Read section 6.5: Economic Imperialism pages 407–416

Topics

• Peruvian Guano and the United States (Youtube search)
• Cotton vs wool in England (Youtube search)
• Cash-cropping vs subsistence farming (Youtube search)
• Land fertility, monocultures, and polyculture farming (Youtube search)
• Rubber plantations and brutal worker treatment (maimings and mutders) (Youtube search)

Discussion

• We've read about how brutal the conditions were for indigenous people who lived in places that were claimed by the world's empires. Do you think it would be possible to make contact between cultures as different as those without such horrible abuse? How could it have been different? Could the native cultures survive that contact, even if the intentions of the empires were genuinely beneficent?

Homework

• #hw (hist) Write a ACE response to the question, "Could the imperialist nations of the 18th-20th centures have avoided destroying the indigenous cultures they found, but still gained access to the natural resources they wanted?"