Happy Tuesday!!

Pick up a textbook and write your name (FIRST AND LAST) on the inside cover

3 Worlds Meet

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue!• Christopher Columbus: Italian, sailed for Spain

seeking a water route to Asia– Sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean– Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

• Didn’t find Asia…BUT started the process of interaction between Europe, Africa and the Americas

• Met Taino Native Americans on San Salvador and called them “Indians”

Motives for ExplorationGod- MissionariesGold- fortunesGlory-make a name for themselves and their

monarchsGadgetsIncreased populationRenaissance Growth of commerce

Impact on Native Americans• Colonization- the establishment of distant

settlements controlled by the parent country• Military forced used to control native populations• Plantation system used with forced labor

– Native American resistance- armed defense of land and revolts

• Disease took its toll on native populations– Had no immunity– Measles, mumps, chicken pox, smallpox, typhus,

influenza

• Different views on land use

The Slave TradeDisease killed Native Americans- not a stable

work forceAfrican slavery- alternative for labor

In high demand Already resistant to European diseases

Trans-Atlantic Slave tradeMiddle Passage12 million people taken from Africa by early

1800s

Stop and Think!How were slaves captured and transported to

the Americas?

Impact on EuropeansColonization benefitted many types of people:

Merchants- make moneyMonarchs- increase power and influenceCommon people- new place to settle and workMASS MIGRATION

Columbian ExchangeMovement of new plants and animals across

the Atlantic between the Americas, Europe and Africa

New to Europe and Africa: tobaccos, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, peanuts, pumpkins, peppers, turkeys

New to Americas: diseases, cattle, sheep, pig, chickens, horses, wheat, rice, sugar, coffee

European RivalriesPortugal v. Spain- led to…Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)- divided Western

HemisphereEast of line (Brazil)- PortugalWest of line (rest of the Americas)- SpainIgnored by the English, French and Dutch

Started colonizing anyways

Spanish Claim a New EmpireConquistadors- Spanish explorers and

conquerors who took over parts of the Americas for SpainCortez- Conquered the AztecsPizzaro- conquered the IncaPonce de Leon- FloridaCoronado- American southwest

Spanish EmpireMany Spanish men married Native women=

mestizo culture- mixed Spanish and Native American

Encomienda system- Spanish forced native populations to work on farms, ranches and in mines for Spanish lordships- eventually abolished

Stop and ThinkWhy were the natives so resistant to the

Europeans?