The modern era is characterized by numerous technological inventions and diverse changes: the printing press, a new financial system, the Reformation and religious schism, Columbus and the discovery of America, as well as the conquest of the continent. With these three-tiered materials, your students will acquire a shared foundational knowledge about this exciting period. They will work with and analyze images, maps, and texts, practicing the handling of sources and their critical evaluation. Cooperative working methods are employed whenever they are thematically appropriate and methodologically sensible. All solutions are included.