Period 7: Read and answer questions for documents on European exploration of the Americas. Due: Tuesday 11/18
Period 8:
Read Disease in the Americas" article and answer the following questions on a piece of paper. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.
Due: Tuesday, 11/18
1. What evidence does the article give that disease spread rapidly throughout the Americas?
2. How did the spread of disease facilitate (make easier) the colonization of North America?
3. What is epidemiology?
4. What methods did ethnographers use to estimate the devastation to the population caused by Europeans?
5. Was the spread of disease in the Americas a genocide? Use examples and facts fromt the article or textbook to back up your claim. You must choose a side.
