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PERIOD 1:

1491-1607

PERIOD 1 SHORT HISTORIES

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really, Period 1?!

Iroquois women could own land and chose the "sachems"--

or chiefs-- of their respective tribes.

PERIOD 1 ARTIFACTS (aka, primary sources)

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A WARLIKE RACE

Amerigo Vespucci, explorer, letter to his patron, 1502

COLUMBUS'S

FIRST LETTER

Christopher Columbus, Letter to Spain's Treasurer, 1493.

GREAT DESOLATION

Fray Bernardino de Shagun, Florentine Codex, 1540-1585.

REWARDS OF THE VICTORS

A short account of

the Destruction of the Indies, woodcut by

T. de Bry; text by B. las Casas, 1542.

THE CONQUEST OF NEW SPAIN

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, conquistador in the new world, 1568

IRIQUOIS LONGHOUSES

Friar Gabriel Sagard, the long journey to the country of the huron, 1632

SPANISH ACCOUNT OF TAXCOTL FESTIVAL

Lopez Gomara, private secretary of Cortes, 1520

AZTEC ACCOUNT OF TOXCATL FESTIVAL

Recorded by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, c. 1550

THE DEVASTATION

OF THE INDIES

Bartolome de las Casas, Dominican friar in the new world, 1542

ROD'S PERIOD 1 LESSONS

Method Guides for any

Period

Writing Video Guides

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