Packet Exploration and Colonization Draw a Circle Map

Packet # ___ • Exploration and Colonization

Draw a Circle Map and Frame • Question: What it would be like to leave your home and travel to Mars? (Make a Title above Frame) • Background: Currently there aren’t pictures of the entire planet and no one is sure how communications would work. • Include in your Circle: • List how you would feel • List what you think you may encounter.

Circle Map: What would it be like to leave your home and travel to Mars?

Vikings arrive (1001 AD) • Vikings may have reached Canada (Leif Erickson) • No one knows why they left • They didn’t settle

• http: //www. history. com/topics/exploration/c olumbus-day

1300 -1600 s – Peoples’ knowledge of the world increased as they met other cultures • People in Europe believed there were three continents (Europe, Asia, Africa) • They left their homes for the first time to trade, fight in Holy Wars, Renaissance made them think and explore

Who were the Europeans and what did they want? Columbus – “Glory, God, and Gold”! - 1492 Looking for trade route to India (Far East/Asia) by going WEST across ocean – looking for gold and spices and a Northwest Passage He was Italian, sailing for Spain

Who were the Europeans and what did they want? Glory – To be first for Spain God-Spread Christianity Gold- To gain natural resources and riches King and Queen of Spain gave him three ships: Nina; Pinta; Santa Maria

Who were the Europeans and what did they want? In October, 1492, Columbus landed in Salvador (Bahamas) – then moved on to Dominican Republic/Haiti

Who were the Europeans and what did they want? Columbus made 3 more voyages to the Americas 1. He enslaved many of the Taino (Indians) 2. Claimed Taino land for Spain 3. Thousands of Tainos died of European diseases – especially small pox

Who were the Europeans and what did they want? Thinking he was in India, called the people there, “Indians”, really Tainos

Columbian Exchange

Were Columbus’ voyages a success or failure? Columbus’ voyages were a success!! 1. Proved the world was round 2. Columbian Exchange: People of Europe and America traded ideas, goods (gold), animals, plants to the Natives and vice versa which helped ppl 3. Columbus inspired curiosity and learning

Who were the Europeans and what did they want? Columbus’ voyages were a failure 1. Native Taino people were enslaved and died working 2. Columbian Exchange: People of Europe and America traded diseases – killed millions of the Native people

Columbus – Hero or Villain? https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=GD 3 dgi. Dre. Gc

Was Columbus a Hero or Villian? • Should we celebrate Columbus Day?

Who were the Europeans and what did they want? Amerigo Vespucci First to realize North and South America were not in Asia The two continents were named after him Called the continents, “The New World”

Were the Spanish successful in colonizing the Americas?

What did Spain Want? Spanish Explorers = Conquistadores Looking for riches, land, and wealth Ponce de Leon Looking for Fountain of Youth - discovered and named Florida (European in No America) - shot and killed by Native American arrow in FL

Florida was a Spanish Colony (St. Augustine, FL)

Spain builds an Empire Pueblo

What did Spain Want? - Spanish bring horses - Spanish colonists force Indians to farm and mine gold and silver

Bartolome de Las Casas seeks reform (change) • Las Casas witnessed deaths of Indians due to hunger, disease, and mistreatment • Went to Spain to change enslavement of Native Americans • Few officials followed new laws • Las Casas suggests a new labor force to replace Natives – Africans • Las Casas later regrets this suggestion

What did the Dutch want? • • Dutch from the Netherlands settled in NY Bought Manhattan from Native Americans Set up NY for trading Welcomed ppl from other nations and religions

Why is the river named Hudson? • Henry Hudson sailed for the Dutch • Then sailed for the English, looking for Northwest Passage – sailing NW from Europe to get to Pacific Ocean • Hudson River and Hudson Bay named for him

What did France want? France wants Canada • Looking for Northwest Passage – waterway through North America • Wanted to hunt and trade beaver fur Traded with Native Americans, not conquer them • Named it New France

What did France want?

What did France Want? • Sailed down St. Lawrence River, Explored Great Lakes, Down the Mississippi to New Orleans • (Looking for a way through the continent) Northwest Passage

What did France Want? Trader Robert La Salle claimed Mississippi River Valley for France 1. Named after King Louis XIV a)Louisiana

What did France Want? La Salle’s Discoveries

Coureurs de Bois “Runners of the Woods” • Established friendly relations with Native Americans • Learned animal trapping • Traded knives, kettles, cloths for beaver skins

How do we know all this? • Primary Source: Person was there! • Created at the time under study (original source) • Provide eyewitness accounts

Europeans explored and made colonies around the world