Day 98 - Double Clicker Quizzes
Today in WHAP we took two clicker quizzes.
We started off with Mr. Profitt proposing the idea of not having study time before the quiz, because that's what Mr. Yo's class does. I'm against this idea, because without this time how would I be able to review the video again, and make it fresh in my mind before the quiz? The answer to that is I couldn't, and I'm sure others also feel the same way, as it can't hurt to review more. If, however, we decide to stick to that line of logic, one of Mr. Yo's classes doesn't write HTS', only IDs, so I'd be all for it if we decided to drop the HTS.
The quiz wasn't hard despite being 10 questions, and we did get the bonus, so everyone was guaranteed a 100. Below, though, I'm going over what we talked about during the quiz since we spent most of class talking about various clicker quiz answers. The organization of the data is when it was said in class, not chronologically.
Essentially, Austria caused the French Indian War, which despite it's other name, lasted 23 years and not 7. During this war, the native Americans supported the French. They supported them because the French were traders, not colonizers like the British, so they would generally not take the land from the natives. In some cases, Jesuits would visit the native's villages and learn their language and culture, so that they could apply Christianity to the native's life, not force them to conform to the European model.
Then, in 1498, Vasco de Gama made it to the Indian Ocean, and by the time of the 16th century, trading post empires, which where were they would capture a key location and charge for distribution, were commonplace. Eventually, Joint stock companies (VOC) would take over the trading post empires.
After this, Mr. Profitt mentioned how the French Indian war was the first real world war, (actually Churchill said it, Mr. Profitt quoted from him) and how significant that was. The war involved all the continents because the British were pretty much everywhere, as they projected very well. Then Mr. Profitt told us a quote from Einstein about how Einstein doesn't know with what weapons the next world war will be fought with, but that the next one after that will be fought with sticks and stones. Essentially, that's a grim foreshadow for how eventually there will be some sort of nuclear/devastating war, and humanity will either be eradicated or brought back to the paleolithic real quick.
Then, in regard to Britain losing the colonies, they could have kept them if they'd really wanted to and "took off the gloves", but it just wasn't worth it for them to put forth all their forces to keep the colonies, when they'd just be left with a bunch of disobedient colonies and massive debt afterwards.
Then, towards the end of class, Mr. Profitt mentioned how the colonists fought the war because they disliked Mercantilism, not because they weren't able to "pursue happiness". In this war, the colonies had made their committees of correspondence/shadow governments even before they had won the war, which was kinda a first because other nations that had successfully overthrown a government weren't ready with their own government afterwards, creating an awkward "Now What?" moment.
With that, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tomorrow!
We started off with Mr. Profitt proposing the idea of not having study time before the quiz, because that's what Mr. Yo's class does. I'm against this idea, because without this time how would I be able to review the video again, and make it fresh in my mind before the quiz? The answer to that is I couldn't, and I'm sure others also feel the same way, as it can't hurt to review more. If, however, we decide to stick to that line of logic, one of Mr. Yo's classes doesn't write HTS', only IDs, so I'd be all for it if we decided to drop the HTS.
The quiz wasn't hard despite being 10 questions, and we did get the bonus, so everyone was guaranteed a 100. Below, though, I'm going over what we talked about during the quiz since we spent most of class talking about various clicker quiz answers. The organization of the data is when it was said in class, not chronologically.
Essentially, Austria caused the French Indian War, which despite it's other name, lasted 23 years and not 7. During this war, the native Americans supported the French. They supported them because the French were traders, not colonizers like the British, so they would generally not take the land from the natives. In some cases, Jesuits would visit the native's villages and learn their language and culture, so that they could apply Christianity to the native's life, not force them to conform to the European model.
Then, in 1498, Vasco de Gama made it to the Indian Ocean, and by the time of the 16th century, trading post empires, which where were they would capture a key location and charge for distribution, were commonplace. Eventually, Joint stock companies (VOC) would take over the trading post empires.
After this, Mr. Profitt mentioned how the French Indian war was the first real world war, (actually Churchill said it, Mr. Profitt quoted from him) and how significant that was. The war involved all the continents because the British were pretty much everywhere, as they projected very well. Then Mr. Profitt told us a quote from Einstein about how Einstein doesn't know with what weapons the next world war will be fought with, but that the next one after that will be fought with sticks and stones. Essentially, that's a grim foreshadow for how eventually there will be some sort of nuclear/devastating war, and humanity will either be eradicated or brought back to the paleolithic real quick.
Then, in regard to Britain losing the colonies, they could have kept them if they'd really wanted to and "took off the gloves", but it just wasn't worth it for them to put forth all their forces to keep the colonies, when they'd just be left with a bunch of disobedient colonies and massive debt afterwards.
Then, towards the end of class, Mr. Profitt mentioned how the colonists fought the war because they disliked Mercantilism, not because they weren't able to "pursue happiness". In this war, the colonies had made their committees of correspondence/shadow governments even before they had won the war, which was kinda a first because other nations that had successfully overthrown a government weren't ready with their own government afterwards, creating an awkward "Now What?" moment.
With that, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tomorrow!
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