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By akiszka
On July 24, 2017
Bell Ringer: First Impressions Are Everything
Description
Author Charles Mann discusses the difference between the Native Americans and the English settlers at Jamestown in how they viewed land usage and changed the American landscape.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- What effects did Native Americans have on the land in North America?
- How was the English conception of land usage different from the Native American conception?
- How might the different views on land usage held by the Native Americans and the English have impacted their interactions when they first encountered each other at Jamestown?
Participants
Vocabulary
- Agronomist
- Anthropologist
- Botanist
- Communal
- Deed
- Fallow
- Hemisphere
- Monoculture
- Parcel
- Polyculture