Key Concept 1.1: Native populations migrated and settled across North America, developing distinct and complex societies by adapting to diverse environments.
Columbian Exchange
Key Concept 1.2: Contact among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans resulted in the Columbian Exchange, leading to significant social, cultural, and political changes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Causes and effects of Columbian Exchange.
Encomienda System
Coerced labor.
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Expansion of slave trade.
French in St. Lawrence Area
Las Casas
Bartolome de Las Casas "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies"
Las Casas.
Restriction of the Indies
Columbus "Discovers" America
Diary entries from Christopher Columbus.
Protestant Reformation
Palestant Reformation
Cortes Defeats Aztecs
Diary entries from conquistadors: Bernal Diaz, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro.
America & National Identity (NAT)
Maize
Impact of Maize cultivation
Cultural Superiority
Work, Exchange, & Technology (WXT)
Geography & the Environment (GEO)
Impact of geography on types of settlements
Migration & Settlement (MIG)
Harvest
Captain
Joint-Stock Company
Encomienda System
A system
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mound Builders
Great Plains HG
Mobile lifestyles in Great Basin and Great Plains
Northeast Rohn agriculture
Northeast & eastern societies developed mixed agricultural societies & hunter-gatherer
Northwest Hidr
Northwest Native American societies were hunter-gatherer societies
Range
Conquistadors
Details to Know
Causes of exploration
Impact of Spanish empire on social and economic structures of the Americas
Conflicts between Europeans and Natives over views such as religion, gender, family, land use, power
Native attempts to maintain autonomy and independence through diplomacy & force