History Frames

What is a frame, and how is it like a map?

• It helps tell you where restaurants are

• It helps you navigate

• It locates you in a certain time period

• It guides you through space

What are the three frames we use in this course? Select 3

• Communities

• Wars

• Production and Distribution

• Networks

• Locations

Why might some historians argue that production and distribution (rather than networks or communities) is the most important frame when we study the Big History story beginning 13.8B years ago?

• How we produce and distribute goods and services traces back to this time of our earliest ancestors.

• This was when the materials and minerals humans use in production and distribution were formed.

• This was when the materials and minerals humans use in production and distribution were formed.

• This was when the materials and minerals humans use in production and distribution were formed.

Why was silver important to traders in the seventeenth and eighteenth century?

• Because it was primarily mined in the Americas, indigenous people were able to leverage it with European colonists.

• It was the only European “luxury” good that could compete with the elegant silk and porcelain being exported from China.

• It was the one trade item that Europeans could use to trade with China.

• It was heavier than other goods, like wool and silk, so it required the invention of new, larger ships to move it.

What aspect of the production and distribution frame narrative changed most dramatically as a result of the expansion of trade routes?

• Neither production nor distribution were affected

• Both production and distribution

• Mostly production

• Mainly distribution

How have production and distribution changed over the course of human history?

• They have remained relatively the same.

• They both expanded and contracted.

• They consistently grew.

• They shrank over time.