Tuesday

 Today we are going to discuss Key Concept 1.2

We will explore the causation of European exploration (what caused Europe to eventually explore the "New World"?), the contextualization of exploration (what was going on during the time), and the Columbian Exchange. We will also begin looking at our first PRIMARY SOURCE - Columbus.

Homework: First chapter 1 and graphic organizer.

1.1: Before the arrival of Europeans, native populations in North America developed a wide variety of social, political, and economic structures based in part on interactions with the environment and each other.

1.2: European overseas expansion resulted in the Columbian Exchange, a series of interactions and adaptations among societies across the Atlantic

1.3 Contacts among American Indians, Africans, and Europeans challenged the worldviews of each group.

Key Terms/Vocabulary: Columbian exchange, Treaty of Tordesillas, encomienda, three-sister farming, mestizos, Black Legend, Algonquian, Iroquois Confederation, Mayas, Incas, Aztecs, conquistadores, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, New Laws of 1542, Lakota Sioux, Peublos, Bartolome de Las Casas, John Cabot, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Protestant Reformation, Roanoke Island, Spanish Armada.

Columbian Exchange