Chapter 1 New World Beginnigs
Why 1491? Why pick this year? Why is it significant? What impact does it have on our study of history?
Migration and Settlement of the Americas Developed distinct and complex societies by adapting and transforming their environments Mexico and present-day American Southwest Great Basin and Western Great Plains Northeast and Atlantic Seaboard
Columbian Exchange What is it? How did it affect the Native Americans? Africans? Europeans
European Exploration, Colonization, & Migration
Spanish Exploration Who? Why? Where? Capitalism What is it? Significance to exploration? Plantation-based agriculture Why this method? Impact on colonization Encomienda System What is it? Effects on colonization Pueblo Revolt (Pope’s Rebellion) What is it? Effects on relationship between Spanish and Natives Greater impact on long-term colonization Black Legend?