National Center for History in the Schools

Three Worlds Meet:
The Columbian Encounter and Its Legacy
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this unit allows students to explore the Columbian Encounter from the perspective of Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans. The lessons include North American and European maps, pictures of Native American artifacts, and written documents taken from the Aztecs, Columbus’s log, Bartolomé de Las Casas, etc. This unit traces the background of the encounters, motives for exploration, and shipboard life. Finally, the unit analyzes relations among the races as well as animal and plant exchanges. 99 p. Grades 5–9
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World History
Era 6
Standard 1
How the transoceanic interlinking of all major regions of the world from 1450 to 1600 led to global transformations
Standard 6
Major global trends from 1450 to 1770.

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