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=New Empires in America 1400-1750=

Chapter 2 in our text
//Sections in this chapter:// //1. Europeans Set Sail// //2. Europeans Reach America// //3. Spain Builds an Empire// //4. Race for Empires// //5. Beginnings of slavery in America//

Activities:

Project: See the Explorer's Project page
This is an extension for those who need a challenge [|Organizer to collect information about an explorer]

Extension Activitiy [|Web Quest: An Adventure to the New World]

Video:
[|Age of Exploration-Pre-Colonial America] [|Age of Exploration in Europe] [|Motivation for exploring] [|Maro Polo] [|Just the Facts: America's Explorers and Pioneers (Sir Francis Drake)] [|Explorer Videos by The Textbook Company (Glencoe)]: 1. [|Columbus episode] 2. [|Spain in the Americas] 3. Exploring [|North America]...Leif Eriksson [|National Geographic: Columbus] [|PBS: Columbus] [|Magellan 1 video] [|Magellan Voyage] Part 1 [|Magellan Voyage Part II] [|Cortez 1] [|Cortez 2] [|Pizzaro, history channel] [|Pizzaro and the Incas: an enactment] skit that is funny [|Pizzaro's Conquest of the Incas (4 min video)] [|Machu Picchu - The Lost City of the Incas (2min video)] [|American History: the new world from Columbus to Spanish and English Colonists:]black & while footage from USIS (US Information Service) [|Jacques Cartier] [|John Cabot] [|The Defeat of the Spanish Armada Video] [|Humorous version of the Spanish Armada] [|Henry Hudson] [|Renaissance Video - 6 min] [|History Channel on Explorers] [|PowerPoint slides on explorers] [|Protestant Reformation] [|PBS on the Protestant Reformation] [|Video: Early Explorer's song] Slavery in the Americas [|Slavery part 1 History Channel] [|Part II] [|Part III] [|Slavery and the Making of America 1] [|Slavery and the Making of America 2] [|Slavery and the Making of America 3]

Interactive web sites:
[|Explorers: a great list of web sites] [|Think Quest: Explorers] [|Scholastic hunt on explorers]
 * [|Explorers of NA] **
 * [|European Explorer KeyWord Match] **
 * [|Early Explorers] **
 * [|Age of Exploration] **
 * [|Explorer Millionaire: facts for the test] **
 * [|Christopher Columbus: rags to riches] **
 * [|Age of Exploration Practice Test] **
 * [|Enchanted Learning on Explorers] **
 * Other Web Sites: **
 * [|Explorer Gateway] **

** [|Americas Early Explorers: click on the explorer name] **

 * [|American Journeys:] [|Eyewitness] [| accounts...] **
 * [|Pinterest: collection of project pictures] **
 * [|Once Upon a time...the explorers: this is a cartoon review of explorers from the ancient times] **

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