Assignment 1 – Native American Cultures
Read pages 7-12 and answer the following questions.
1. Describe culture in Cahokia. What was the family structure like; who did what jobs?
2. How were the Pueblos able to farm?
3. What did the tribes of the Pacific coast survive on?
Assignment 2 – Europe in the 1400s
Read pages 16-17 and answer the following questions.
1. What Impact did the Black Death have on Europeans?
2. How did the Ottoman Empire change Europe?
3. What did that change force countries like Portugal and Spain to try to do?
Assignment 3 – Africa in the 1400s – Read pages 20-23
1. What are some examples of the big empires in African History?
2.Was there slavery in Africa?
3. What was it like? Meaning, how were they treated? How were they viewed by society? etc.
Assignment 4 – Spanish Conquest – Read pages 35-38
1. Who led the Spanish against the Aztecs?
2. What reasons allowed for the swiftness of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas? (How was it possible to happen so quickly?)
3. Were their Spanish people against the treatment of the Aztecs and Incas? What did they say?
4. Define encomienda.
Read pages 7-12 and answer the following questions.
1. Describe culture in Cahokia. What was the family structure like; who did what jobs?
2. How were the Pueblos able to farm?
3. What did the tribes of the Pacific coast survive on?
Assignment 2 – Europe in the 1400s
Read pages 16-17 and answer the following questions.
1. What Impact did the Black Death have on Europeans?
2. How did the Ottoman Empire change Europe?
3. What did that change force countries like Portugal and Spain to try to do?
Assignment 3 – Africa in the 1400s – Read pages 20-23
1. What are some examples of the big empires in African History?
2.Was there slavery in Africa?
3. What was it like? Meaning, how were they treated? How were they viewed by society? etc.
Assignment 4 – Spanish Conquest – Read pages 35-38
1. Who led the Spanish against the Aztecs?
2. What reasons allowed for the swiftness of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas? (How was it possible to happen so quickly?)
3. Were their Spanish people against the treatment of the Aztecs and Incas? What did they say?
4. Define encomienda.