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The Devastating Impact of New Diseases on Indigenous Peoples
Analyze primary and secondary accounts of how Eurasian epidemics drastically reduced Native American populations.
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The Columbian Exchange and Impacts of Cultural Encounter
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Analyze European searches for northern trade routes, the transatlantic exchange of goods and diseases, and multiple perspectives on early cross-cultural encounters.
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SS.Inq3.a.mWisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th GradeDevelop a debatable and defensible claim based upon the analysis of sources.
SS.Inq3.a.hWisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th GradeDevelop a defensible claim to provide focus for an inquiry that is based upon the analysis of sources.
Inq3.bWisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th GradeCite evidence from multiple sources to support a claim