Recognising key change
Learning Outcome 3.2: Evaluate the impact of conquest and colonisation on people, with particular reference to Portuguese and Spanish exploration.
INTRODUCTION
all histories - Turning Points in History - Age of Exploration
biography.com - Leif Eriksson
Overview
Ten Minute History - The Early Spanish and Portuguese Empires
TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Vasco da Gama
biography.com - Vasco da Gama - explorer
Christopher Columbus
Kate and Sarah from Presentation Ballyphehane - Christopher Columbus
history matters 365 - Christopher Columbus Multimedia Image
Biography.com - Christopher Columbus - explorer
TED-Ed - History vs. Christopher Columbus
the new york times - Should Columbus Day Be Replaced With Indigenous Peoples Day?
britannica - Quiz - columbian exchange: new world or old world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Biography.com - Ferdinand Magellan - explorer
TED Ed - How Magellan circumnavigated the globe
national geographic - 240 men started magellan's voyage around the world. only 18 finished it.
Magellan's Voyage, 1519-22
Spanish Conquistadors
Biography.com - Hernán Cortés - explorer
history extra - Cortés and Montezuma: The conquering of Tenochtitlan
national geographic - who were the aztec, really? It's complicated.
Biography.com - Francisco Pizarro - explorer
bbc radio 4 - in our time - The Inca
TED Ed - The rise and fall of the Inca empire
bbc world service - witness - inca defeat
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
TED ED - THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
CRASH COURSE HISTORY - The Atlantic Slave Trade
Impact of Exploration
New world encyclopedia - European Colonization of the Americas
MORE RESOURCES
BBC - THE EPIC STORY OF THE MAP THAT GAVE AMERICA ITS NAME
FOCUS TASK
Write an account of the following:
The impact of conquest and colonisation on native populations in the New World.
The impact of conquest and colonisation on native populations in the New World.