PSD Analysis

CHY4U

Unit 1

Position/Bias Can Be Implied By…

attitudes

Motivations values

assumptions

worldview

Writer/Speaker/Creator’s

Or Explicitly Stated By…

Writer/Speaker/Creator’s

stated purpose choice of words tone of voice

Position/Bias Is Shaped By

Worldview

Position/Bias in PSD

ExperiencesSTART HERE

Experiences Shape Bias/Position: Las Casas

Encomienda: Kingsborough Codex, Wikipedia, Sept. 30, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encomienda (Oct. 1, 2013).

Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/In-Defense-Indians-Bartolome-Preachers/dp/0875805566

(Oct. 1, 2013).

Luther

• Christian Humanism• His personal struggle to find

God• His trip to Rome in 1510 where

he saw Church corruption

Wikipedia Commons, File:95Thesen.jpg, 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:95Thesen.jpg (Oct. 1, 2013).

1522 Latin copy of 95 Theses

Creation of Adam; Sistine Chapel ceiling painted 1508-1512

Jennie Cohen, 7 Things You May Not Know About the Sistine Chapel, History in the Headlines, Nov. 1, 2012, http://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-sistine-chapel (Oct. 1, 2013).

Missionaries: Experiences at Home and Abroad

• Ricci studied geography, cartography, astronomy, mathematics with scholars at the Roman College, including Clavius who specialized in Euclidian geometry

• Ricci in China

On this rare map, China is the center of the world, Minnesota Public Radio News, Jan. 12, 2010, http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/01/12/blacktulip-map (Oct. 1, 2013).

1602 map of the world made by Ricci shows China at the centre

Beyond Ricci: Rare Books from the Jesuitica Collection at Boston College,Translation of Euclidean Geometry into Chinese, 2013, http://ricci.bc.edu/knowledge/translation-euclidean-geometry-

chinese (Oct. 1, 2013).

Peter the Great

• Russia’s position in the world

• Europe’s view of Russia

• Peter’s upbringing and travels

• Westernization

Royal Museums Greenwich, Peter the Great, Review of Dutch Yachts Before Peter the Great, 1697, Abraham Storck, 2000, http://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/sea-and-ships/facts/explorers-and-leaders/peter-the-great (Oct. 1, 2013).

Dutch yachts sailing by Peter, 1697

The cabin of Peter, first home in the new city of St. Petersburg, combines Dutch and Russian elements

Saint-Petersburg.com, The Cabin of Peter the Great, 2013, http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/cabin/ (Oct. 1, 2013).

Closure of Japan

• Tokugawa centralized feudalism

• Popularity of Christianity

• Dutch only Europeans left: on Dejima island in Nagasaki Bay

Emperor (figurehead only)

Shogun (ruler = tries to control lords)

Daimyo (lords = landowners)

Samurai (fighters)

Peasants, Artisans, Merchants

Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, World History: Connections to Today (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001), 327.

Beyond Ricci: Rare Books from the Jesuitica Collection at Boston College, Nagasaki, 2013, http://ricci.bc.edu/places/nagasaki (Oct. 1, 2013).