Compare and contrast economic, political, and/or cultural life in California across the following periods of California history:
• Pre-Columbian California (circa 40,000 BCE – 1542 CE)
• Spanish California (1542-1821)
• Mexican California (1821-1848)
• American California (1848 -1920).

•What was similar and what was different about economic, political and/or cultural life in California during these various periods in the past? by answering these questions:
• When, where, why, and how have the most significant changes in economic, political, and cultural life taken place?
• Who was involved and affected by these changes?
• How have innovations in politics, economics, and social relations re-defined life in California overtime?
• What continuities (e.g. prevailing trends and traditions) have defined dominant patterns behavior and belief in California across time?