Historians and Primary Sources: Maps, Journals, and Artifacts

Early European Exploration and Atlantic Encounters

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Explain how historians use 15th- and 16th-century primary sources, such as ship logs, explorer maps, letters, and archaeological artifacts, to reconstruct the past.

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Early European Exploration and Atlantic Encounters

3rd Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Analyze primary sources to trace 15th- and 16th-century European voyages, conquests, motives, and early interactions with Indigenous nations.

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4.T3.1Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Explain how historians studying the European voyages to the Americas use archaeological evidence, maps, illustrations, and texts produced in Europe at the time, and that all of these materials are called primary sources.