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WORLD HISTORY
WORLD HISTORY
EARLY HUMAN MIGRATION
EARLY HUMAN MIGRATION
Khan Academy:
READ: Homo Sapiens and Early Human Migration
Watch: Peopling the Earth
Practice: Where Did Humans Come From?
Khan Academy:
WATCH: Causes and Effects of Human Migration
READ: Causes and Effects of Human Migration
PRACTICE: Key Concepts: Human Migration
ANCIENT HISTORY
ANCIENT HISTORY
Ancient_Egypt.pdfRoman_Republic.pdfINDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE AMERICAS
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE AMERICAS
Mayan_Civilization_Collapse_-teacher.pdfThe_Inca__Engineering_an_Empire_-teacher.pdfTHE RISE OF NATIONS
THE RISE OF NATIONS
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Artist: John Vanderlyn
Artist: John Vanderlyn
This painting depicts Christopher Columbus and members of his crew on a beach in the West Indies, newly landed from his flagship Santa Maria on October 12, 1492. The island landing was the first landfall of their expedition to find a westward route from Europe to China, Japan and perhaps unknown lands. The natives called this island Guanahani and Columbus named it San Salvador.
American neoclassicist painter John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) was commissioned by Congress in June 1836 to paint the Landing of Columbus for the Capitol Rotunda. It was installed by early January 1847.
Early Maps of the New World, or Mundus novus. While Columbus sailed there first, he never knew he hadn't landed in Asia (hence the "West Indies" and "Indians."). Amerigo Vespucci realized that there was another whole continent or two there, and so (a version of) his name ended up on the map.
1500 C.E.
1502 C.E.
1507 C.E.
Detail of the map that shows "America"
1540 C.E.
Letter_to_the_Treasurer_of_Spain-teacher.pdfDoctrine of Discovery.pdfWow! The Vikings beat Columbus by over four centuries! Brand new evidence, from scientific examination of scraps of wood in Newfoundland, pinpoints the exact year of (the brief) Norse settlement in North America: 1021.
MAPS THAT EXPLAIN THE MIDDLE EAST
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