Classroom Resources Study Aid: Major European Explorers Foreign Languages, Geography, World History 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 View this infographic as a PDF.
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Maps of Colonial America Geography 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ While colonial era maps of North America are often inaccurate representations of the geography, they do give us insight into how Europeans viewed the Western Hemisphere. Early Dutch, French, and Spanish maps record waterways, land...
Classroom Resources Cultural Encounters: Teaching Exploration and Encounter to Students Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Some 40,000 years from now, give or take a few millennia, someone, somewhere in the universe may find and listen to the Golden Record, NASA’s attempt to describe Earth and its peoples to anyone out there who might be interested. There...
Classroom Resources Study Aid: Cultures of the Americas, 1200 BC–AD 1600 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Mound Builders (Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River) Key Groups : Adena (500 BC), Hopewell (100 BC) Religion and Culture : Known as mound builders because they buried the dead in large earth mounds, these groups lived in small...
Video America before Columbus Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Charles Mann’s book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (Knopf, 2005) won the US National Academy of Sciences’ 2006 Keck Award for the best book of the year. In this lecture he looks at new research on pre-Columbian...
Video Guns, Horses, and the Grass Revolution Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In this lecture Elliott West, a professor of history at the University of Arkansas, describes how the introduction of Old World phenomena such as guns, horses, and new diseases affected the Native peoples of the New World. Those who...
Video How was North America settled before European colonization? Government and Civics 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video Exchanges of Culture and Conflict in the Southwest Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Professor DeLay looks at changes in thought, technology, and outlook that prompted early exploration, and Spain’s late entry into colonial pursuits.