About This Lesson
This focuses on the Encounter between Columbus and Caribbean natives. The essay task is "Discuss how the Encounter impacted Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans". Doc 1 is about the Requerimiento, 2 = Cortes, 3 = conversion of natives to Catholicism, 4 = small pox, 5 = Pizarro, 6 = slave trade and impact on African kingdoms, 7 = sugar plantations, 8 = African labor, 9 = mercantilism. The silver version has fewer, easier, and shorter documents for some topics.
