Students should be able to identify and explain the importance of the following people, events, and concepts:
Cahokia
The Black Death
Marco Polo
Prince Henry the Navigator
Christopher Columbus
Queen Isabella
Vasco de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernando Cortés
Tenochtitlán
Conquistadores
Francisco Pizarro
St. Augustine
Don Juan de Onate
encomiendas
Santa Fe
Maize
Mestizos
Guinea
John Cabot
Mercantilism
The Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
John Calvin
The English Reformation
Puritan Separatists
Quebec
Coureurs de bois
Henry Hudson
New Amsterdam
Jamestown
The Spanish Armada
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke
