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The Columbian Exchange: Environmental and Human Impact
Analyze how the transfer of crops, animals, diseases, and technologies transformed ecosystems and human populations across continents.
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Early Contact, Settlement, and the Thirteen Colonies
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Examine pre-contact Indigenous societies, European colonization, distinct regional economies across the Thirteen Colonies, and the growth of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Learning standards covered
SS.8.1.2Colorado Social Studies Standards · All agesDevelop a contextual understanding of the historical eras, individuals, groups, ideas, and themes from the origins of the American Revolution through Reconstruction.
SS.8.2.1Colorado Social Studies Standards · All agesUse geographic tools to research and analyze patterns in human and physical systems in the United States.