When my group was brain storming ideas for the three questions about epoch three, How do societies take advantage of other societies was one of the questions we came up with but decided not to use. I think this is a really good question because we see societies taking advantage of other societies all the time today and, as shown through epoch three, it happened a lot back then as well.
When the Europeans came over to the Americas, they took a ton of advantage of the Native Americas who lived there before. The Native Americans, who were not as advanced in their technology, were easily taken over by the Europeans who came to America. The Europeans took advantage of the Native American's land, and lack of advanced technology.
The Europeans also took advantage of the African civilizations that they came across when they expanded to Africa. Much like the Native Americans, the Europeans took advantage of the fact that Africa was not as advanced as them. They also easily took those civilizations over. The Europeans kidnapped some of the Africans and took them over to America to be slaves. This is an example of how Europeans took advantage of the African people.
There are many more times in this Epoch that civilizations took advantage of other civilizations but, to me, these are two of the most important.
Sarah-
ReplyDeleteYou're doing a great job so far-you're really highlighting some of the most important issues in your questions and doing an exceptional job of exploring those questions as you write. You've got the hang of this blogging thing and I think you're doing exactly what you need to do in order to be successful as a blogger. Going forward, you're going to want to address the themes of each unit in your blog posts during those units--try and connect the topics we cover to the themes of the unit. If you can do that, you're going to be a-okay. You're doing a great job so far.