For Teachers: Lessons

Rethinking the rise of the West: Global Commodities

Konstantin Georgidis, Canterbury School, Ft. Myers, Florida

CLASS ACTIVITIES: Comparing and Contrasing Points of View

E. Concluding class discussion

Ask students to discuss the following proposition:

    "After 1571, much of what passed as local history could be understood only through the wider lens of world history. Once connected, the fortunes of the continents were bound together forever."