HUM 112 Strayer University Week 3 Transatlantic Slave Trade Discussion Paper Week 3 Discussion Each week we will be looking at a set period from our past.

HUM 112 Strayer University Week 3 Transatlantic Slave Trade Discussion Paper Week 3 Discussion

Each week we will be looking at a set period from our past. Although these are our ancestors, it will seem like we are studying a distant planet, inhabited by people with the strangest of habits. Fortunately, these subjects of our observation give us abundant clues about who they are. Their art, their writing, their technology, the way they do business, the way they govern themselves all feed into a picture we will attempt to paint for ourselves each week. Understanding who they were will help us understand who we are.

Each week you will be given three or four questions pertaining to important topics covered in the materials provided in the question itself, the textbook, the lectures, the other materials provided, and my comments in my Live Session. You choose the one question you like and post a response of 125 words or more. You also need to respond to another post from one of your fellow students. This second post should be at least 60 or so words long and should not just agree with or repeat what has been said.

Please always use an example that has not already been used in the discussion.

Imagine that you have been sent by Starfleet Command or by your boss (whichever you prefer to report to) to observe two foreign and strange civilizations. One civilization is called “the American Revolution” and the other is called “the French Revolution”. Each has certain defining characteristics and one country’s outcome was very different from the other’s. How was their approach to both revolution and ruling different and similar? Was one more successful than the other?
With the death of Louis XIV, the tightly controlled court at Versailles split apart. French aristocrats established their own courts at their home and these were called salons. The stars of these salons were the Philosophes. They were like the rock stars of their time. They were philosophers who promoted a set of ideas about the relationship between the government and the governed. Choose one of these philosophers and explain what how he described that relationship. Our textbook has a good section on them beginning on page 842.
Between 1492 and 1509, the Spanish managed to enslave or exterminate virtually all Native Americans living in the Caribbean basin. Many of them died of European diseases and many of them were worked to death. The entire Spanish plan was built around a large enslaved workforce. When it became apparent Native Americans would not be the source of this workforce, the Spanish made the decision to acquire and import enslaved people from Africa. From then on people from Africa, people with dark skin were almost always slaves in the Americas. All other European countries adopted the same approach and race became so tightly enmeshed with the idea of slavery that we are still dealing with it. This established what came to be known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. How did it work and who benefited the most from it?
The Rococo is the next step in the artistic movements of Europe that we will study. Using two Rococo artists explain just what Rococo is. Please use specific works by each artist. How do the characteristics of Rococo Style tell us about the time in which they were created?
Your book does a great job explaining Chinese/European interactions in Chapter 25. How did that interaction work? Who saw the most benefit from the relationship? How do you think European interactions back then effect present day relationships with China and the other countries the Europeans encountered during this time?