XXXXXXXXXXChapter 3-4 Discussion
Choose one of the following discussion options:
A. After reading and reviewing Chapter 4 and watching the videos on the Enlightenment and the First Great Awakening, answer all prompts in the following discussion question. Make sure to include relevant points to your answer and make sure that your information is correctly cited. You must post before you can see the posts of others.
- Based on what you know about the Enlightenment, the Great Awakening and the American Revolution summarize the relationships between all three and explain your answer.
- How was American society impacted by the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening?
- We speak of “liberty.” What in your own opinion do you believe the people were seeking when thinking of liberty in terms of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. In other words, explain what liberty in terms of human rights and religious freedom mean to you and what you think it meant to eighteenth-century Americans.
- Finally, we are speaking of concepts that are hundreds of years old. What value do you see them having today, if any?
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B. After reading and reviewing Chapter 3 and watchingThe Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24 video, select one of the following discussion topics and answer all of the prompts for that topic. Make sure to include relevant points to your answer and make sure that your information is correctly cited. You must post before you can see the posts of others.
1. Compare and contrast life in the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonies. Who were the colonizers? What were their purposes in being there? How did they interact with their environments and the native inhabitants of the lands on which they settled?
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2. What impact did Europeans have on their New World environments—native peoples and theircommunities as well as land, plants, and animals? Conversely, what impact did the New World’s nativeinhabitants, land, plants, and animals have on Europeans? How did the interaction of European andIndian societies, together, shape a world that was truly “new”?
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