1. Chapter 1
New World Beginnigs

2. Why 1491? Why pick this year? Why is it significant?
What impact does it have on our study of history?

3. 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

4. Columbian Exchange What is it?
How did it affect the Native Americans? Africans? Europeans

5. European Exploration, Colonization, & Migration

6. 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?