Mr. Stenger

Period 1: 1491-1607

Chapter 1- New World Beginnings (33,000 BCE-1769)

-Ch. 1 Reading Questions

-Character Sketches (Columbus, Moctezuma II, Cortes)

-Crash Course: Black Legend, Native Americans and Spaniards video clip

 

Documents

-Christopher Columbus in the "New World" (1492)

-Columbus "The Letters of Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabel"

-Christopher Columbus, journal excerpt and letter

-A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Columbus)

-A Patriot's History of the United States by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen (Columbus)