Slide 1 Slide 2 New World Beginnings Chapter

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Slide 2 New World Beginnings Chapter 1 American Pageant (13 th ed. )

Slide 3 Oh, Pangaea! You supercontinent, you. . .

Slide 4 Land, ahoy! Land bridge connected Asia to North America (thank you, Ice Age) n People migrated all the way to South America n Notables include: – Incas – Mayans – Aztecs n Native American cultures emerged in North America n

Slide 5 Europeans discover the New World Vikings in 1000 AD (Newfoundland) n Crusades occur in Europe & Asia; curiosity ignited n Portugal leads the way in exploration & exploitation n The slave trade begins in 1450 s & flourishes due to sugar…yep, sugar! n n And, then Spain enters the picture…

Slide 6 Spanish Conquistadores Christopher Columbus: a successful failure? n The Columbian Exchange n Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) n Kept Spain & Portugal friendly n – Portugal & Spain divided the New World – North-South line, chopped off Brazil and Portugal got land east, including parts of Africa

Slide 7 Spanish Conquistadores n n n Balboa: discovered Pacific through isthmus of Panama Magellan: 1 st to circumnavigate the globe (kind of…) De Leon: Discovered Florida; Fountain of Youth n De Soto: Discovered Mississippi River n Pizarro: Conquers Incas and takes Peru n Coronado: Found Pueblo Indians looking for El Dorado (city of gold)

Slide 8 Spanish Conquistadores n Conquistadors economy n Encomienda transformed the world established – Indians given to colonists in return for Christianization of population – Basically glorified slavery disguised as religious work

Slide 9 Conquest of Mexico Hernando Cortes conquers Aztecs n Aztec King Montezuma at first welcomed Cortes as god Quetzalcoatl n Smallpox took out Aztecs n Mexico’s future set n

Slide 10 Spanish America Spanish forts set up to protect their “investment” n St. Augustine, Florida (oldest continually inhabited European settlement) n Don Juan de Onate conquered New Mexico at the Battle of Acoma (1599) n n Pueblos revolted against Spanish rule in 1680 – Pope’s Rebellion saw Pueblos burn every Catholic Church and kill settlers n Spanish eventually reclaimed New Mexico in 1700 s

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