Analyze the ENCOUNTER between Europeans and the peoples of the Americas as the COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE — biological, cultural, ecological, and demographic transformation including ~90% Indigenous mortality 1492-1600
Exercise
Difficulty 4
~12 min
hist.g7.s.ex_47
Claim Evidence Warrant
MG-13
Diagram
DECOLONIAL TOOLKIT poster — 18x24 inch wall poster summarizing Mignolo + Quijano + Santos + Tuck + Yang + Smith decolonial moves. FOUR DECOLONIAL MOVES: (1) Refuse single-modernity narrative; (2) Name coloniality alongside modernity (modernity/coloniality couplet); (3) Center suppressed epistemologies; (4) Attend to ongoing afterlives. Each move illustrated with a Lesson-application example. Critical anchor: Tuck + Yang 2012 'decolonization is not a metaphor' — material land/sovereignty/repatriation refused as mere classroom rhetoric.
Prompt
Write a 200-word claim-evidence-warrant essay 'How does Wallerstein 1974 build on Abu-Lughod 1989?' Apply MG-13 Decolonial Toolkit.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
rubric essay
rubric
- points
- 3
- criterion
- Abu-Lughod 1989 'multi-core' system named
- points
- 3
- criterion
- Wallerstein 1974 'European core' system named
- points
- 3
- criterion
- Transition 1450-1640 framed as world-system genesis
- points
- 3
- criterion
- MG-13 Decolonial Toolkit
Hints
- MG-20 G7-Fall before-picture + MG-21 G7-Spring after-picture.
- Center coloniality alongside modernity per Mignolo.
Misconceptions to watch
- Treating Wallerstein as Eurocentric
- Ignoring Abu-Lughod's earlier system
Used in lessons