33,000 bce to 1769 ce. isolation leads to slower development incas, aztecs (mexica), and the mayan...
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NEW WORLD BEGINNINGS
33,000 BCE to 1769 CE
PEOPLING OF AMERICAS Isolation leads to
slower development
Incas, Aztecs (Mexica), and the MayanMaize CultivationAnimism/
SpiritualityMathematics,
astronomy, and trans-regional trade
EARLIEST AMERICANS Maize and
Irrigation Technology
Hunting and Gathering
Cahokia Gender Relations Three-Sister
Farming Iroquois
Confederacy
INDIRECT DISCOVERERS OF THE NEW WORLD Crusades and Western Europe
Spices, silks, drugs, perfume, and sugar Marco Polo Indian Ocean Maritime System and Silk
Road Muslim Middlemen
EUROPEANS ENTER AFRICA
Renaissance in Europe
Early Plantation SystemMadeira, the
Canaries, Sao Tome, and Principe
PortugueseDias 1488DeGama 1498
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
COLUMBUS: “MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE IN WORLD
HISTORY”
Columbus’s First Voyage
Circumnavigate the Globe – Magellan
WORLDS COLLIDE Columbian Exchange Sugar Revolution
SPANISH CONQUISTADORS Treaty of Tordesillas
(1494) Spain Dominated
ExplorationBalboaMagellan Juan Ponce DeLeonCoronadoPizarro
Encomienda System
CONQUEST OF MEXICO Hernan Cortes
1519MalincheMonteczuma
Small Pox Mestizo Population
“God, Gold, and Glory”
Juan de Onate 1599 Battle of Acoma
Pope’s Rebellion 1680
Black Legend
SPREAD OF SPANISH AMERICA
ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH Incentives for Colonization
Land Scarcity MercantilismReligious MotivationEnglish ReformationPuritan Separatists Irish Model
ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH French and Dutch in America
New Amsterdam – French Influence First English Settlements
Spanish ArmadaGilbert and RaleighRoanoke