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Social Studies
Week of 10-13-14
Grade Level:
5
Subject:
Social Studies
Topic:
Spain Builds an Empire
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- Explain the purpose of Columbus’s voyages to the Americas and describe his first encounters with the Taino.
- Define the Columbian Exchange and explain its causes and effects.
- Explain the impact of Columbus’s voyage on the Americas.
- Explain the reason for Christopher Columbus’s voyage.
- Explain the purpose of latitude and longitude.
- Use latitude and longitude to locate points on a map.
- Describe the factors that enabled Cortes to defeat the Aztecs.
- Explain the changes the Spanish brought to the New World.
- List the sequence of the Spanish conquests in the Americas after Cortes’s defeat of the Aztecs.
- Summarize the sequence of events involved in Spain’s search for gold in North America in the early to middle 1500′s.
- Describe the structure of society in New Spain.
- Determine the effects of the Spanish conquests on Indians.
- Explain the points of view of Spanish landowners regarding slavery
- Identify the contributions of Bartolome de Las Casas.
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32. Describe the Spanish conquests in the Americas including the impact on the Aztecs, Incas, and other indigenous peoples (H-1B-M2)
33. Explain the course and consequences of the Columbian Exchange, including its
cultural, ecological, and economic impact on Europe, the Americas, and West Africa (H-1B-M2)
34. Describe the arrival of Africans in the European colonies in the seventeenth century and the increase in the importation of slaves in the eighteenth century (H-1B-M3)
35. Explain the societal impact of the immersion of Africans in the Americas (H-1B-M3)
36. Identify instances of both cooperation and conflict between Indians and European settlers (H-1B-M3)
37. Describe and compare the various religious groups in colonial America and the role of religion in colonial communities (H-1B-M4)
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