Guns Germs and Steel continued...(Part 2)
Objective: Provided the prologue to Jared Diamonds Guns Germs & Steel book, as well as the opportunity to see the second part of the video Guns Germs and Steel, students will be able to list and describe the key elements Diamond identifies for his reasoning for cultural dominance among the various historical and current cultures around the world.
Rationale: It is important for students to understand the factors that lead to cultural development and dismiss unfounded claims of racial superiority theories.
Evidence: Students should be able to list factors that disprove the racial superiority theory with actual evidence of how cultures developed their dominance.
We will see part 2 of Guns Germs and Steel.
Questions for part 2 are -Here
Once part 2 is finished we will take a quiz covering the major points shown in parts 1 & 2.
After the quiz we will introduce the history of Imperialism for Europe with a Crash Course Video from John Green -
After the Video we will start the Imperialism presentation
The presentation will establish the foundation for why countries used imperialism/colonization as a means to spread their influence and control around the world.
Upon completion for the presentation, students will be doing an activity in which they determine of Imperialism is good or bad.
