DEFINING MOMENTS Downloadable Lessons Publication Date: 3/2009
The first encounter between Christopher Columbus and the
inhabitants of Hispaniola was the beginning of widespread
exchanges across the hemispheres—food, goods, gold, and, to the
devastation of many Native Americans, disease. With this
Defining Moment, students investigate this momentous meeting,
and speculate: What if it had been the Europeans who carried
home a highly infectious and deadly disease? items in your cart