APUSH UNIT I STUDY GUIDE  
                 PERIOD 1: 1491-1607  
                  
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                 Key Concept 1.1 
                    Migration and settlement of native populations and the resulting societies: 
                      
                      
                         o  Influence of the spread of maize cultivation 
                              
                              
                         o  Great Basin & Great Plains societies 
                  
                  
                         o  Northeast & Mississippi River Valley societies 
                  
                  
                         o  Northwest & California societies 
                          
                  
                  
                 Key Concept 1.2 
                    Contact between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans: 
                      
                      
                         o  Europeans’ motivations for exploration 
                              
                              
                                    Including Columbus 
                                      
                                      
                         o  The Columbian Exchange 
                              
                              
                                    Its impact on economic, social, and political developments  
                                      
                                      
                         o  Improvements in maritime technology & their impact on trade and economies 
                              
                              
                         o  Deadly epidemics spread through the Columbian Exchange & their impact 
                          
                              
                         o  Spanish conquest & the encomienda system 
                              
                              
                                    Motivations & justifications of the encomienda system 
                                      
                                      
                                    Impacts of the encomienda system 
                  
                  
                         o  West African slave trade 
                              
                              
                                    Motivations & justifications of the slave trade 
                                      
                                      
                                    Impacts of the slave trade (social, economic, etc.) 
                  
                  
                         o  Spanish colonial caste (Casta) system 
                              
                              
                         o  Mutual misunderstandings between Europeans and Native Americans 
                  
                  
                         o  Native rebellions against European rule 
                          
                              
                         o  Debate over Spanish dominance & the treatment of Natives & Africans by Europeans 
                              
                              
                                    Supelveda, Las Casas