How did European contact and conquest in America change life in the Americas and in Europe?

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CT Core Standards Grades 9-10: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.7

analyze and interpret information related to history, economics

Level 2, Cause/Effect, Interpret, Compare

Students may have heard about the importance of diseases in the defeat of Native Americans, but it’s important to point out that Native American mortality was also the result of the oppressive systems put in place by Spanish conquerors.
Students may not understand the varied reasons for European interest in the New World, believing that all involvement centered on riches rather than religion or adventure.
Students may not realize the importance of the exchange of ideas, technology, and crops among world cultures and that the exchange involved changes in European and other cultures as well as American cultures.
Students may not realize that both the mission system and the encomienda system used by Spanish settlers resulted in the destruction of Native American cultures.

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Extended-Constructed Response: Columbian Exchange

The Terror of Smallpox

How did European diseases affect the European the conquest of the Americas?

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