Unit 1 - First Contact and the Changing World
In this unit, students will explore life in the Americas before Europeans arrived, the voyages of Christopher Columbus, and the rise of New Spain. They will learn how the Columbian Exchange transformed diets, economies, and cultures—but also spread disease, slavery, and conflict. This unit shows how the meeting of two worlds forever reshaped history.
Lesson 1
Pre Columbian Native Americans
Lesson 2
Columbus, Colinization, and Big Changes in the Americas
Lesson 3
Explorers and Conquistadors
Lesson 4
The Columbian Exchange
