Humanities Homework Help

Prompts:

– Why were the Chinese (and other) merchants in the South China Sea labeled as pirates?

– How did these groups helped the galleon trade? What has money got to do with colonialism?

– How did the Columbian Exchange, particularly, the introduction of sweet potato, facilitated the expansion of Chinese groups who originally depended on wet river valleys for rice cultivation?

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Guidelines:

– From the three prompts above, choose one to write and reflect on. You can do all or just one. One might be more specific and better.

– One page, single spaced. Include a works cited page as the second page. MLA format with the heading.

– You will highlight the major points from the readings and offer reflections, critiques and/or questions.

– Provide several in-text citations from articles provided where needed. Example of in-text citation = (author’s last name year of publication: pg #). ….

….Example: (Stephens 2002: 238).

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