Encounter and Exchange: The Atlantic World, 1450-1750: Social Studies Unit 2, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Encounter and Exchange: The Atlantic World, 1450-1750 is Unit 2 of Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 1) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 11 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 104 pages.

• The directional flow of the Columbian Exchange (specific crops, animals, pathogens moving between hemispheres)
• The biogeographic/domestication-history logic that fixes the direction of Columbian Exchange movement
• The epidemiological mechanism of demographic collapse (lack of acquired immunity to Old World pathogens)
• Encomienda and chattel slavery as distinct forced-labor systems
• Mercantilism as an underlying economic logic distinguishable from its vocabulary label
• The triangular trade route and the economic function of each leg
• Conflicting perspectives in primary sources on the same Atlantic World event
• Mercantilism as a transferable economic pattern applicable beyond the Atlantic World context
• The generalizability of the contact-collapse-extraction pattern beyond the specific Atlantic World case
• The moral status of a system versus the moral status of individual participants within it (encomienda/chattel slavery)
• The core vocabulary terms of the Atlantic World unit

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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