1. Big History
By Nadya Dooley
10/22/10
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2. Peoples and Empires
• Throughout the course of History, empires have risen and then fallen,
replaced by new ones:
• Greece was once a huge empire, continuously expanding it’s
boundaries outwards.
• However, inwardly it was weakly held up, and when Alexander the
Great passed away (From drinking too much!), the city crumbled and
was divided by war. It was then replaced by a new empire- Rome.
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3. Peoples and Empires
• Some of the time, empires
attacked others because of a
lust for riches and power,
because they wanted to expand
their boundaries, or because of
a previous feud.
• Other times, it was because of
(In the name of) religion.
Religion was the cause of
a lot of other actions too:
• People were captured to give
their souls to god, and often
priests would even go along to
war.
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4. Peoples and Empires
• Trade, as rulers began to see,
was a good way to gain more
power. They thought to gain
the most trade, they would
need to conquer the ocean
and it’s trade routs.
• By doing that, they would
gain more riches then anyone
else, and grow more powerful.
By growing more powerful, they
would, in the long run , control the
world.
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5. The Origins and Nature Of New
World Slavery
• Slavery has existed all across the world- slaves used to be a big part of
life for many people. Black slaves were used for the worst kind of
labor and were treated like work animals: They were subject to
sacrifice, torture and being stripped and sold as livestock. National
leaders even thought black and white people could not live along side
each other.
• Out of them, people liked African slaves better then indians because
they were more disciplined workers, while the indians thought work
like that was for women. Therefore, the African slaves sold at a higher
price.
• The slaves were used a lot for producing
tobacco because people loved it. Once people
tasted sugar, they loved that too,
and the slaves
were used for that
also.
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6. The Origins and Nature Of New
World Slavery
• Slavery changed the way farming and
production worked. Slaves were used for
any job that someone didn’t want to do.
• They were captured and forced into labor.
Colonists started picking up and using
natives for slaves, as they sailed over to
America. These slaves didn’t meet the
peoples expectations though, and they
started bringing African slaves over to
America. By 1820, 10 million slaves had
been shipped there.
• America was created on the backs of the slaves.
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7. Guns, Germs and Steel
• Lucky Geography. This was what caused
some populations to be so much higher then
others. While some people thrived in the
fertile crescent, others spent long, weary hours
hunting for food.
• Because of the fact food was relatively easy to find,
the people in the fertile crescent had time to advance
technologically. They planted food and cared for
livestock, while the others were still trying to scrape a living out of the
dirt.
• Perhaps the unlucky ones could’ve gotten livestock, but without the
right food, the right livestock didn’t even live there. This is also
another cause of “the creation of” slaves.
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8. Guns, Germs and Steel
• It was because of this huge head
start, that spanish conquistadors
were able to mow down thousands
of incas with only 106 footmen and
62 horsemen.
• Due to the fact that they had the livestock that benefited
them so much, the lucky Europeans grew immune to many
diseases that later wiped out their enemies, and even 95%
of the indians from America that would become their
slaves.
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9. Guns, Germs and Steel
• With the help of their food and livestock,
those people developed technology and
weapons that some unlucky people still
don’t have today.
• For example, there are some tribes
living in New Guinea that still use
primitive, outdated methods
to catch and harvest their food.
It takes all day to get enough food
(And most of the food is not very
nutritious), and the tribes don’t have
any time left for advancing their
technology.
• As you can see, it’s all in the luck of the draw.
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10. Guns, Germs and Steel
• With the help of their food and livestock,
those people developed technology and
weapons that some unlucky people still
don’t have today.
• For example, there are some tribes
living in New Guinea that still use
primitive, outdated methods
to catch and harvest their food.
It takes all day to get enough food
(And most of the food is not very
nutritious), and the tribes don’t have
any time left for advancing their
technology.
• As you can see, it’s all in the luck of the draw.
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