BIG ERA 6 1400-1800
Smallpox in the Americas
World Book - Smallpox
http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html
African Slave Trade – Disapora
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/africa_article_01.shtml#one
http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=1
Triangle Trade
World Book - African Americans (Beginning of the slave trade); Middle Passage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/industrial_era/the_slave_trade/revision/1/
Cortes and Moctezuma II
World Book – Cortés, Hernán; Montezuma II
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/aztec-capital-falls-to-corts
Tenochtitlan
World Book – Tenochtitlan
http://www.ushistory.org/civ/11d.asp
Pizarro and the Incas
World Book – Pizarro, Francisco; Inca
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pizarro-executes-last-inca-emperor
Ships in the Age of Exploration
World Book – Ship (in the History sub section)
http://www.history.co.uk/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us/articles/the-age-of-exploration
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vaucher/History/Ships_Discovery/#cog
Cannon in the Age of Exploration
http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/PamMack/lec122/explor.htm
Gutenberg’s Printing Press
World Book - Gutenberg, Johannes, Printing press
http://www.teachercreatedmaterials.com/curriculum_files/free/activities/february2009/10774b.pdf
Zheng Le, the Man Who Discovered America
World Book - Zheng He
http://www.islamicity.com/articles/articles.asp?ref=IC0301-1843
Sugar in Big Era Six
http://faculty.lacitycollege.edu/moonmc/html/sugar.html
http://www.sucrose.com/lhist.html
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/sugar/cohen-text starting at Slaves to Sugar
Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimage to Mecca
World Book - Mansa Musa
http://www.academia.edu/1593503/Lion_Of_Mali_The_Hajj_of_Mansa_Musa
The Spice Trade in Big Era Six
http://www.silkroadspices.ca/history-of-spice-trade
http://www.livescience.com/7495-spice-trade-changed-world.html
Spain and the Reconquista
World Book - Union of the Spanish kingdoms
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-twoworlds/1677
http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages/reconquista.php
Mining for Silver in Big Era Six
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/captivepassage/arrival/arr023.html
http://www.925-1000.com/silverhistory.html
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/chinawh/web/s5/s5_4.html
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/chinawh/web/s5/s5_4b.html
The Effect of Potatoes on European Diets
World Book - Potato go to the History section
http://www.history-magazine.com/potato.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-changed-the-world-108470605/?no-ist=&page=1
Incan Mummies
World Book - Mummy; Inca
http://www.altoona.k12.wi.us/faculty/gbuske/W5D16DBD.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/mummies/mworld2.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/ice-mummies-inca.html
Indigenous Culture and Christianity in the Spanish New World
World Book - Colonial life in Spanish America; Mission life in America
http://www.pluralism.org/encounter/history
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/spanish-missions-us-history
Ottoman Empire
World Book - Ottoman Empire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/ottomanempire_1.shtml
http://geography.about.com/od/historyofgeography/a/The-Ottoman-Empire.htm
The Scientific Revolution
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/scientificrevolution/summary.html
http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/global/themes/change/sci.cfm
Copernicus
World Book - Copernicus, Nicolaus
Galileo
World Book - Galileo
Rene Descartes
World Book - Descartes, Rene
Pascal
World Book - Pascal, Blaise
Isaac Newton
World Book - Newton, Sir Isaac
Gun Powder Technology
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/six/landscape/06_landscape3.pdf starting on page 4
The Spread of Islam in Big Era Six
Encomienda System
World Book - New Spain; Colonial life in Spanish America
http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/theconquestofperu/p/Spain-S-American-Colonies-And-TheEncomienda-System.htm
Plantation Economy
http://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/routes/places-involved/west-indies/plantation-economy/
http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=309:plantationlife&catid=125:themes&Itemid=221
Timbuktu
World Book - Timbuktu
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/timbuktu/
European Explorers
World Book - The age of European exploration
Bartolomeu Dias
World Book - Dias, Bartolomeu
Ferdinand Magellan
World Book - Magellan, Ferdinand
Ponce de Leon
World Book - Ponce de León, Juan
Estevan
World Book - Estevanico; Cíbola, Seven Cities of