HIS 118 Milestone One Template (2)

+HIS 118 Milestone One Template Assignment Overview For your first milestone assignment, you will submit a draft introduction to your final project and an outline of the full project. At this point, it is not necessary for you to know all of the details and examples you plan to use; rather, this assignment will help you organize your thoughts and make sure you remember to include each section of the final project. Preparing Your Outline Use the template on the next page to prepare your Milestone One submission.  The text in bold should remain the same, as it provides the basic structure of your final project in accordance with the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document.  You should change all text that appears in blue italics and replace it with your thoughts and plans for your final project. The final project requires you to address several different topics within an overall discussion of how globalization impacted the development of the modern state. You will answer specific questions about economic, social, philosophical, political, and external factors that contributed to globalization and the development of states, and explain the overall historical significance of the emergence of the modern state. In your outline, you must include each of those sections and some preliminary thoughts on how you may answer each of the questions that are posed. Refer to the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document for the specific questions that must be answered in each section. Feel free to include questions for your instructor as bullet points throughout the outline, particularly if there are areas where you feel unsure of how to proceed. Refer to the Milestone One Rubric before you start working on this assignment to make sure you understand the expectations for this assignment and how it will be graded.

Milestone One Template 1. Introduction With Thesis Statement Europeans gaining knowledge of the world’s regions through exploration by creating new technology and gaining a greater understanding of the world’s oceans helped their cause of globalization. Europeans were able to establish new trade routes, such as the Colombian Exchange to exchange plants, animals, and food crops. The Triangular Trade, with the Colombian Exchange, dealt with the trade of human populations. Unbeknownst at the time just how great these trades would have devastated as well as have transformative effects on world populations. Globalization impacted the development of states from 1500 to the present as a result of the creation of links between all lands and people through exploration and epidemic diseases brought on through trade by Europeans that impacted the Americas and Africa. 2. Body of Paper ( you may change the order of the body sections if you wish ) A. Social and Philosophical Forces i. Social Forces  Europeans had a viewpoint of natives as “savages” and without the diseases that Europeans brought with them to the Americas, they would not have been able to use American lands for their own purpose.  Europeans viewed unlived on land in America as “empty”, thus they made their settlements despite of Indians using that land for many centuries.  The slave trade caused African societies the loss of millions of people. ii. Philosophies and Religions  Christianity was a driving force for wanting to trade.  Oversea voyages gave Europeans the chance to spread their faith.  Kings of Kongo converted to Christianity which helped their relationship with European traders. iii. Briefly state how this section supports your thesis statement The social and religion forces will allow for an understanding behind Europeans’ need to expand their forces across the world. B. Economic Forces i. Economic Forces  American plantation owners need for labor which led to the trade of slaves to the Americas.  Trade allowed regions that did not have certain items the ability to obtain them as well as garner huge profits. iv. Goods and Commodities  The slave trade was expanded dramatically when Europeans gained interest in it  Upon arrival in the America’s, enslaved people were sold two to three times more than what they cost in Africa. v. Briefly state how this section supports your thesis statement The slave trade was used throughout various regions and understanding the effects of it will support my thesis. Also, gaining greater knowledge of other goods and commodities that assisted in the growth of the Americas can help my thesis statement as well. C. Political Forces i. Events  Trade across the Atlantic and Indian oceans impacted state development in Africa.  The conversion of Christianity by African kings helped bring a strong endorsement of their rule.  Briefly state how this section supports your thesis statement  Political forces were a driving force in the beginnings of trade networks and exploration. Kings and governments financed explorations and had lasting effects on regions.

E. Historical Perspective i. Modern Events The colonies in the Americas declaring their independence from Great Britian. America fought with their original mother country to form their own nation of states and won their independence. This would set the stage for events and lead to one of the leading countries in the world. 3. Conclusion The growing knowledge European explorers gained about exploration lead to the discovery of the Americas and set off a chain of events. Through the creation of trade routes, Europeans were able to spread their religion and the Colombian exchange, and the triangular exchange set in motion for unwilling human populations, food crops, animals and more to be exchanged through them. Globalization impacted the development of states from 1500 to the present as a result of the creation of links between all lands and people through exploration and epidemic diseases brought on through trade by Europeans that impacted the Americas and Africa. 4. Bibliography 1492: An Ongoing Voyage Europe Claims America: The Atlantic Joined.” Library of Congress, August 13, 1992. Accessed Jan. 18, 2023. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/eurocla.html . “Religion and Colonization.” Oxford Bibliographies, last modified January 15, 2019. Accessed Jan. 18, 2023. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0311.xml . “Avalon Project - Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus : 1492.” https://avalon.law.yale.edu/15th_century/colum.asp .