4.11: Students compare and contrast 15th-through-18th-century America and the United States of the 21st century with respect to population, settlement, patterns, resource use, transportation systems, human livelihoods, and economic activity.
4.2: Students describe the legacy and cultures of the major indigenous settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the triple alliance empire of the Yucatan Peninsula, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi.
4.2.1: Identify how geography and climate influenced the way various nations lived and adjusted to the natural environment, including locations of villages, the distinct structures they built, and how they obtained food, clothing, tools, and utensils.
4.3.4: Describe the aims, obstacles, and accomplishments of the explorers, sponsors, and leaders of key European expeditions and the reasons Europeans chose to explore and colonize the world (e.g. the Spanish Reconquista, the Protestant Reformation, and the Counter-Reformation).
4.7: Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.
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