Assignment Instructions for Conquest Unit

Read Chapter 1 of the text book. Be able to answer the reading questions.

Look at Secondary and Primary sources for the Conquest Unit. Read those that interest you. Use these as sources for discussion posts, analytic paper or timeline topics. Questions on the midterm and final will come from here as well as the book so read these essays and comment on them in class discussion

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For each week, 1 through 2, post

one identification or narrative  to the assignments forum on blackboard, and

at least 3 good messages a week to the discussion forum on blackboard.

Use the list below for ideas of things to research or choose your own topic

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By semester's end, you must turn in one analysis paper and one timeline. These can be about any topic related to US history up through the Civil War and Reconstruction (ca. 1870).  You will have a midterm and a final examination.

Terms related to Conquest for your weekly assignments

 

Identifications
Beringia	Mississippian Culture	Montezuma
encomienda system	Hopewell Culture	Richard Hakluyt
Inter Caetera	Adena Culture	Francis Drake
Olmec	Clovis	Pocahontas
Mayas	Bartolome de Las Casas	Powhatan
Toltec	Virginia Company	Cahokia
Reconquista	Jesuit Relations	Aztec
Martin Luther	Captain John Smith	Inca
Juan de Sepulveda	Glorious Revolution	Algonquians
King Philip's War	Pequot War	Anasazi
Jesuit Relations	The Five Civilized Tribes	Hohokam
Northwest Coast Cultures	The Iroquois Confederacy	Choose your own and identify it

Narratives
New World plant domestication	Career of Columbus	Career of Cortes
enclosure movement	Explorations of Magellan	fall of Tenochtitlan
Treaty of Tordesillas	Explorations of Vasco de Gama	Career of Cabeza de Vaca
Myth of the Virgin Land	Explorations of Cabot	Explorations of Jacques Cartier
Myth of Prester John	Explorations of Champlain	Roanoke Disaster
Black Death	Career of Pizzaro	History of Fort Caroline
Crusades	Explorations of Coronado	First Thanksgiving
Destruction of the Spanish Armada	Pueblo Uprising	Spanish Conquest of Hispaniola
Rise and Fall of Adena Culture	Rise and Fall of Mississippian Culture	Spanish Conquest of Teotihuacán
Rise and Fall of Hopewell Culture	The impact of the horse on Plains cultures	Choose your own and relate the narrative