Why did various people from a variety of cultures migrate to and settle in the Rocky Mountain region?
A study in the area of the Great River (now known as the Colorado River) and the Rocky Mountains early history and geography.
This unit is a study in the ways that human interactions among people and cultures that have been a part of Colorado’s history have helped shape the area before the boundaries of the state of Colorado were put in place during the colonization from Spanish and European peoples. Through the study of peoples and groups such as Paleo-Indians, Ancestral Puebloans, other Indigenous Peoples and Europeans, students will consider how the physical places in the area to that will eventually become Colorado changed and developed because of human activity as well as how people used geographic factors in identifying key areas of agriculture and creating their settlements.