A whole millennia before the Aztecs, states in Mesoamerica and the Andes overcame geographic obstacles to form a variety of kingdoms that traded, fought, and thrived.
Prophecies, legends, community crops, pottery, tools, and ecological knowledge provided the basis for the founding of major cultures.
In 1750, European empires controlled the Americas. They extracted resources and tried to impose their will on a trade-intensive world of shifting of social relations. Everywhere, people resisted.
The Last Colony is a documentary analyzes the history and the status of Puerto Rico's independence movement.
Pre-contact Americas
Source: Rosie Friedland, revised by Eman M. Elshaikh (adapted from Khan Academy), Origins to the Present Era 3: Pre-contact Americas, https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/PDFs/Origins/Era3/Pre-contact-Americas
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The Americas 1200-1450
Source: William H. Beezley, OER Project AP® World History Unit1: The-Americas-1200-1450, https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/PDFs/AP-World-History/Unit1/The-Americas-1200-1450
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Americas in 1750
Source: Bennett Sherry, OER Project AP® World History Unit 4:Americas-in-1750, https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/PDFs/AP-World-History/Unit4/Americas-in-1750
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The Last Colony
Source: Juan Agustín Márquez YouTube, Oct 7, 2017, www.youtube.com/@JuanAgustinMarquez
Directed by Juan Agustín Márquez, http://juan.mixform.com/projects/2844-the-last-colony