European+Colonization

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Terms

 * Colony, Natural Resources, Spain, Mission, Northwest Passage, France, New Netherlands, England, Plantations, Bartolome de las Casas, Middle Passage, Rivalry, Disease

Essential Questions

 * What motivated European countries to settle in the Americas?
 * What motivated European nations to establish colonies in the Americas?
 * Why were the Americas attractive to European nations?
 * How did European colonization impact the native people of the Americas?
 * How were Africans impacted by European Colonization in the Americas?

Concepts

 * Europe comes to America, Cooperation, Conflict

Lesson Plans

 * Conzen's Map of Cultural impulses that diffused landscape habits
 * Analyze the culture hearths and how European countries explored and settled the continent.