“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.”

EUROPEAN EXPLORATION 1450 -1650 Essential Questions: What were the motivations behind European exploration? What civilizations and/or societies populated the America’s and what were their origins? What areas were explored and claimed by European Empires in the Americas? What was the effect of all of these explorations and claims?

Trade Routes with the East Goods on the early routes passed through so many hands along the way that their ultimate source remained mysterious to Europeans. Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.

The World Known to Europe, 1492 Technological developments in shipbuilding and navigation, as well as a desire to find a water route to Asia, would soon lead Europe into an era of unprecedented exploration. Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.

Principal Voyages of Discovery Spain, Portugal, France, and England reaped the greatest advantages from the New World, but much of the earliest exploration was done by Italians, notably Christopher Columbus of Genoa. John Cabot, another native of Genoa (his original name was Giovanni Caboto), sailed for England’s King Henry VII. Giovanni da Verrazano was a Florentine employed by France. Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.

EUROPEAN EXPLORATION 1420 -1580

EUROPEAN EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT OF THE AMERICAS WAS BENEFICIAL TO THE EUROPEANS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.

EUROPEAN EXPLORATION 1450 -1650 Essential Questions: What were the motivations behind European exploration? What civilizations and/or societies populated the America’s and what were their origins? What areas were explored and claimed by European Empires in the Americas? What was the effect of all of these explorations and claims?

Area of Americas explored/claimed? Explorers and dates Empire Area of Americas explored/claimed? Purpose/Motive Impact/Result(s) SPAIN FRANCE NETHER-LANDS ENGLAND

Biography: mother of the Mexican nation and the first mestizo Cortes’ slave, interpreter, secretary, mistress, and mother of his child She guided Cortes through the conquest of Mexico acting as his translator for the Aztec language and culture.

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Colonies (and names/titles) Politics Economics Family Life (Society) New England: Middle: Southern: