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These arrows have a story? WHEN does human history begin in the Americas?  HOW and WHEN did these first inhabitants arrive. WHERE did they come from and WHAT did they follow? WHO did they become and WHY did they become lost and forgotten from the rest of the world?

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Familiarize yourself with your continent.  How many physical features do you recognize?  Can you predict what significance the labeled areas will have on our history?

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The indigenous peoples of the Americas did not stop at the equator. Migration routes and artifacts journeyed further into South America. Familiarize yourself with its physical features and modern nations.

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As millennia pass after the Ice Age, HOW does geography reshape similar nomadic people to become such different Native American Tribes? Can you recognize one familiar tribe from each region in the Americas?

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Europe has come a long way at a high price for great rewards.  When empires establish lucrative colonies, the need to protect investments that are an ocean away becomes a priority.  In what areas of North America do you foresee war?????

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Using Google Earth, track down famous explorers and read more information on each of their journeys.

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We still debate who the first explorer was to find America.  However, Columbus' discovery opens a European race across the Atlantic in the 16th century.  Pay close attention to the explorers and the region they explored.  Pinpoint the European empire in which their journey began.  Which European country got a head start in the Americas?  Which empire do you think will grow the most or become the wealthiest overall?

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Mercantilism does not work without the merchants that make trades. As settlements establish themselves and colonies grow in the Americas, trade routes begin to evolve. A simple back and forth exchange is worth less; especially when a ship sails empty. Ships unload and reload cargo along different stops. Each region supplies the next destination with the demand they need. More money changes hands with each transaction while transatlantic trade begins to look more triangular. Imports coming in and exports going out represent the supply and demand of a global market. See if you can determine whether each resource is a raw material or manufactured good? Which parts of the world seems to be more industrious? Which parts of the world require a larger labor force?

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WHO Claimed WHAT, WHEN, & WHERE for WHO?

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After exploration, it is time each country claims the land. Notice the small settlements as seeds to a growing colony. Each colony is a chance for an expanding empire. What will happen when the expanding borders begin to bump into other empires?

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Can you pick the physical features of North America?

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Globalization:  Trade that Changed the World Forever!

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Globalization:  Trade that Changed the World Forever!

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Mercantilism means money, and money means more power.  European Empires only make money if the land they claimed has goods worth trading.  And with new land offers the opportunity of bringing your own resources along too.  Footholds in the New World become trading posts and possible plantations.  Both hemispheres will take on new identities in a more global market. Pay close attention to the origin of each resource. Imagine a time when the other half of the world never had access to it and lived without it in its cultures. Do any of them surprise you?

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Transatlantic trade of enslaved people from Africa was also called the Middle Passage.  These were not raw materials or manufactured goods.  This was the trade and trafficking of human beings who were seen and brutally mistreated as cargo and property. What conclusions can you draw about the 13 English Colonies from this map? What raw materials regions do you think demanded the greatest amounts of enslaved labor? How significant was the slave trade for these European empires to expand their colonies? Which data surprises you and what questions can you generate to research more information?