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The Age of Exploration
Atlantic World
Strand #1
Standard #3
Age of exploration
I can explain the effect of European
contact on the Western Hemisphere
Bell-Ringer 9/16
Pick up the two different pages
from the crates by the door.
Get out your maps from your
folders and start finishing up.
The Age of Exploration
Atlantic World
Ferdinand
Isabella
Spain in 1492
Bell-Ringer 9/17
These are the three Learning Targets you will
be tested on:
1. I can compare and contrast the cultures of Meso and North
America with each other and Western Europe.
2. I can identify the causes of the Age of Exploration.
3. I can explain the effects of European contact on the Western
Hemisphere.
Please tell me how comfortable you are with each
of the Learning Targets on notebook paper.
Spain in 1492 Reconquista of Granada
Traded with the East
(but not like Portugal)
Mercantilism and mission
Christopher
Columbus
Mercantilism: control
the world’s wealth before someone else
The Nina
Pinta and
Santa
Maria
Landed in the
Bahamas and
encountered the
Arawak and Tainos
Relationship went
from peaceful to
violent quickly
From a 1599 edition of The Destruction of the Indies with engravings by Theodore de Bry
Whatever
happened to
Columbus?
Returned to Spain
in Chains & Died in
1506 bitter, poor,
disappointed, and
unappreciated
Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the new World to Keep Peace
Hidalgos Former Spanish Soldiers that
flooded the Caribbean
Encomienda system
N
Loss of Native Population
on Hispaniola due to Spanish Disease
1 Million
22,000
African Slaves
replaced Natives
on sugar plantations
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Mulattos
Native Americans
Conquistadores
Conquerors
Gold
God
Glory
G’s
Veracruz 1519 A.D.
Cortes
Full iron armor
Steel swords
Guns
Cannon
Horses
600 men
Leather, cloth, wood
Obsidian weaponry
Obsidian weaponry
Obsidian weaponry
Foot soldiers
Potential for thousands
Biological
Warfare
Bell-Ringer 9/18
There are four different stacks of paper on
the white shelf against the back wall. Pick up
one from each stack. Also, pick up your
folder from the crate and take it back to your
seat.
1st, 3rd, 5th, and 6th hours: take out notes
Peru 1531-32 A.D.
Pizarro
results of the Spanish conquest
Decimation of the Native Population: Nearly Wiped out on
Hispaniola, Mesoamerica contained over 40 million natives but
dropped to 3 million in 150 years
Introduction of European diseases
Creation of the Council of the Indies, which issued laws
and decrees to Spanish-born officials in the Americas
Introduction of Indian slavery with the encomienda
system and, later, African slavery
Destruction of native cultural identity: indigenous cities and
shrines destroyed, outlawed native religion, forced Catholicism,
and created A social system based on race
conquistadores
in north
America
Cibola
Landed in Florida in
1539
searched for Cibola
travelled along the
Mississippi and into
southern Missouri
Explored New Mexico
Searched for Cibola
Reached the Grand
Canyon and Kansas
before returning to
Mexico
A Catholic Indian is
a peaceful Indian
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