Section 1: Discovery and Exploration

Section 1: Discovery and Exploration 1400 - 1600
Fasttrack to America's Past

Click on the links below:

	Pages in Section 1
	Teacher Key - for Section 1 pages
	Maps - for completing the map pages
	Vocabulary - glossary for Section 1

Other resources
to explore on the
Internet

Students: Check with your
parents for permission before visiting Internet links.

Cahokia (Mound Builders - Native Americans)
The Mariners Museum - Ages of Exploration (Click on a time period to begin.)
1507 map showing the New World (Click on the map, then click on full screen icon in the tool bar just above the new image, which is a very high resolution version. You can zoom in and move the view to see all parts of the map in great detail. This is the oldest map known that uses the name "America." Zoom in to see that label in the lower left area of the map that shows the land we now call South America.)
The Lost Colony / Roanoke Island Historical Society (This is the group that runs the famous summer play on Roanoke Island about the Lost Colony.)
National Museum of the American Indian

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