Unit 8 Overview: Expansion and Interconnection (9:47)
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 02:53 What was the bubonic plague and what caused it?
- 03:38 How did a recent interdisciplinary study help to rewrite the history of the spread of the Black Death?
- 05:03 What evidence challenged the narrative that farming produced increasing complexity?
- 06:32 If collective learning increased substantially due to new connections and larger
- 07:21 What types of exchange networks and connections existed before and after 1492?
- 07:40 What is the Columbian Exchange?
- 09:06 What were the negative effects of the Columbian Exchange?