Mankind Story of All of Us: Episode 7 (New World)

Recall the key figures and events in Episode 7 of Mankind: The Story of All of Us, including Leif Erikson's Viking voyage, the fall of Constantinople, and Columbus's 1492 landing

Sequence major historical events from the episode in the chronological order they occur

Identify a cause-and-effect relationship between global events, such as how Constantinople's fall pushed Europeans to seek a new route to Asia

Pause the video at natural breaks so students can complete each question before moving on, since the questions themselves are arranged in chronological order

Use the completed teacher key to lead a class review of the harder terms after viewing, such as the disease that killed half of Tenochtitlan

Assign the two open-ended questions (what happened on October 12, 1492, and what conquest concluded the episode) as short discussion prompts rather than simple recall

Video-based notetaking — students answer twelve fill-in-the-blank and short-answer questions while watching Episode 7 of Mankind: The Story of All of Us.

Chronological sequencing — students track the episode's events in order, from the Viking landing nearly 500 years before Columbus through the Aztec Empire's conquest.

Historical cause-and-effect reasoning — students connect events such as the fall of Constantinople to Europeans' search for a new trade route to Asia.