Students examine the physical and human geographic factors associated with the origins, major players and events, and consequences of worldwide exploration, conquest and imperialism.
4.1 Explain the causes and conditions of worldwide voyages of exploration, discovery and conquest. Identify the countries involved. Provide examples of how people modified their view of world regions as a consequence of these voyages.
4.2 Use a variety of text (writing, maps, timelines and/or other graphic representations) to show the movement, spread and changes in the worldwide exchange of flora, fauna and pathogens that resulted from transoceanic voyages of exploration and exchanges between peoples in different regions. Assess the consequences of these encounters for the people and environments involved.
4.3 Identify and compare the main causes, players, and events of imperialism during different time periods. Examine the global extent of imperialism using a series of political maps.GHW.4.4 Analyze and assess how the physical and human environments (including languages used) of places and
regions changed as the result of differing imperialist and colonial policies. Examples: Native Americans in Mesoamerica in relationship to Spanish conquistadors, missionaries and traders; Africa and the Atlantic slave trade involving Europeans and Africans; the Arabic-Islamic slave trade involving indigenous African peoples and directed northward and eastward within the continent of Africa and into the Middle East; and the slave trade involving only indigenous black Africans in the interior of the continent; economic dislocations in India (1500–1947)
4.5 Analyze and assess ways that colonialism and imperialism have persisted and continue to evolve in the contemporary world.
Imperialism—A national policy of forming and maintaining an empire; it involves the struggle for the control of raw materials and world markets, the subjection and control of territories, and the establishment of colonies.
Post Colonialism—The ways that colonialism and imperialism persist and evolve after formal dissolution of colonial and imperialistic empires.
Flora—plants or plant life of a region or environment
Fauna–all the animal life in a particular region or period
Pathogen—Any organism capable of producing disease.