I’m asking for curriculum planning. Give me a list of topics that I need to teach to meet the questions you need to be able to explain and the additional info you can be required to know. Please only refer to what is explicitly stated and don’t infer any other info.
Questions you need to be able to explain:
Explain the context for
European encounters in the
Americas from 1491 to 1607.
Explain how and why various
native populations in the
period before European
contact interacted with
the natural environment in
North America.
Explain the causes of
exploration and conquest
of the New World by various
European nations.
Explain causes of the
Columbian Exchange and
its effect on Europe and the
Americas during the period
after 1492.
Explain how the growth
of the Spanish Empire in
North America shaped
the development of social
and economic structures
over time.
Explain how and why
European and Native
American perspectives
of others developed and
changed in the period.
Explain the effects of the
development of transatlantic
voyages from 1491 to 1607.
Additional info you will be required to know:
KC-1.1
As native populations migrated and settled
across the vast expanse of North America over
time, they developed distinct and increasingly
complex societies by adapting to and
transforming their diverse environments.
KC-1.1.I
Different native societies adapted to and
transformed their environments through
innovations in agriculture, resource use,
and social structure.
KC-1.2
Contact among Europeans, Native Americans,
and Africans resulted in the Columbian
Exchange and significant social, cultural,
and political changes on both sides of the
Atlantic Ocean.
KC-1.2.I
European expansion into the Western
Hemisphere generated intense social,
religious, political, and economic competition
and changes within European societies.
KC-1.2.II
The Columbian Exchange and development
of the Spanish Empire in the Western
Hemisphere resulted in extensive
demographic, economic, and social changes.
KC-1.2.III
In their interactions, Europeans and Native
Americans asserted divergent worldviews
regarding issues such as religion, gender
roles, family, land use, and power.
KC-1.2
Contact among Europeans, Native Americans,
and Africans resulted in the Columbian
Exchange and significant social, cultural,
and political changes on both sides of the
Atlantic Ocean.
KC-1.2.I
European expansion into the Western
Hemisphere generated intense social,
religious, political, and economic competition
and changes within European societies.
KC-1.2.II
The Columbian Exchange and development
of the Spanish Empire in the Western
Hemisphere resulted in extensive
demographic, economic, and social changes.
KC-1.2.III
In their interactions, Europeans and Native
Americans asserted divergent worldviews
regarding issues such as religion, gender
roles, family, land use, and power.
KC-1.2.I.A
European nations’ efforts to explore and
conquer the New World stemmed from a
search for new sources of wealth, economic
and military competition, and a desire to
spread Christianity.
KC-1.2.I.B
The Columbian Exchange brought new crops
to Europe from the Americas, stimulating
European population growth, and new sources
of mineral wealth, which facilitated the
European shift from feudalism to capitalism.
KC-1.2.I.C
Improvements in maritime technology and
more organized methods for conducting
international trade, such as joint-stock
companies, helped drive changes to
economies in Europe and the Americas.
KC-1.2.II.A
Spanish exploration and conquest of the
Americas were accompanied and furthered by
widespread deadly epidemics that devastated
native populations and by the introduction of
crops and animals not found in the Americas.
KC-1.2.II.B
In the encomienda system, Spanish colonial
economies marshaled Native American labor
to support plantation-based agriculture and
extract precious metals and other resources.
KC-1.2.II.C
European traders partnered with some West
African groups who practiced slavery to forcibly
extract enslaved laborers for the Americas. The
Spanish imported enslaved Africans to labor in
plantation agriculture and mining.
KC-1.2.II.D
The Spanish developed a caste system that
incorporated, and carefully defined the status
of, the diverse population of Europeans,
Africans, and Native Americans in their empire.
KC-1.2.III
In their interactions, Europeans and Native
Americans asserted divergent worldviews
regarding issues such as religion, gender roles,
family, land use, and power.
KC-1.2.III.A
Mutual misunderstandings between Europeans
and Native Americans often defined the early
years of interaction and trade as each group
sought to make sense of the other. Over time,
Europeans and Native Americans adopted
some useful aspects of each other’s culture.
KC-1.2.III.B
As European encroachments on Native
Americans’ lands and demands on their labor
increased, native peoples sought to defend
and maintain their political sovereignty,
economic prosperity, religious beliefs,
and concepts of gender relations through
diplomatic negotiations and military resistance.
KC-1.2.III.C
Extended contact with Native Americans and
Africans fostered a debate among European
religious and political leaders about how
non-Europeans should be treated, as well
as evolving religious, cultural, and racial
justifications for the subjugation of Africans and
Native Americans.
KC-1.1
As native populations migrated and settled
across the vast expanse of North America over
time, they developed distinct and increasingly
complex societies by adapting to and
transforming their diverse environments.
KC-1.1.I
Different native societies adapted to and
transformed their environments through
innovations in agriculture, resource use,
and social structure.
KC-1.2
Contact among Europeans, Native Americans,
and Africans resulted in the Columbian
Exchange and significant social, cultural,
and political changes on both sides of the
Atlantic Ocean.
KC-1.2.I
European expansion into the Western
Hemisphere generated intense social,
religious, political, and economic competition
and changes within European societies.
KC-1.2.II
The Columbian Exchange and development
of the Spanish Empire in the Western
Hemisphere resulted in extensive
demographic, economic, and social changes.
KC-1.2.III
In their interactions, Europeans and Native
Americans asserted divergent worldviews
regarding issues such as religion, gender
roles, family, land use, and power.