Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Activity

Document: Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 6, Lesson 2

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3. Read pages 132 and 133 of your textbook.
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• Did the Europeans have much respect for the Indigenous people?
  
• What did Europeans think the Indigenous people were good for?
  
• Would the Europeans have treated other Europeans this way? Why?

1. Read "Zoom In" on page 135 of your textbook. (Note: "Put to the sword" means they killed people.)
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• Why did the Spanish soldiers kill the Indigenous people?
  
• What does their behaviour, and that of the settlers who demanded laws to protect Indigenous people by repealed (cancelled), tell us about their view of the Indigenous people?

1. Read pages 136 to 138 of the textbook.
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• What was the cost of imperialism to the Aboriginal people?

1. When you are finished, submit your completed Reading/Study Guide on the next page.