The Americas Colonized
Who Is This Man???
Who Is This Man???
Who Is This Man???
Who Is This Man???
Who Is This Man???
Who Is This Man???
The Many Portraits of Columbus
In Fourteen-Hundred and Ninety-Two, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue. Famous line… In Fourteen-Hundred and Ninety-Two, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue. -Traditional Verse
“In Fourteen-Hundred and Ninety- Three, Columbus Stole all he could see.” -Traditional Verse Updated
Proving the World was Round???
Martin Behaim Invented the first GLOBE in @1490
The Need for a New Trading Route
Why is Columbus Famous?? Columbus “discovers” America? Vikings (Norsemen) land in Newfoundland Afro-Phoenicians (N. Africa) landed in Americas
Why does Columbus get credit and is Famous???
Why Columbus gets credit and is Famous??? Famous invention in 1440 by Guttenberg THE PRINTING PRESS Story of Columbus printed and read all over Europe
Why did European Countries want to begin colonizing foreign lands?
Why / How were European Colonists able to successfully colonize in the Americas?
“The Europeans were able to Conquer America not because of their Military Genius, or their Religious Motivation, or their Ambition, or their Greed. They Conquered it by waging Unpremeditated Biological Warfare.” -Howard Simpson (Invisible Armies, 1980)
DISEASES = the key to successful European colonization Smallpox Natives have no immune resistance (90% populations wiped out)
“European Explorers and invaders “discovered” an INHABITED land “European Explorers and invaders “discovered” an INHABITED land. Had it been pristine wilderness then, it would possibly be so still, for neither the technology nor the social organization of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries had the capacity to maintain, of its own resources, outpost colonies thousands of miles from home.” -Francis Jennings (The Invasion of America, 1975)
What effect did European Colonization have on … Europeans??? Native Americans??? The World???
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
Bartolome de las Casas “What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade (in Indian Slaves) as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.”
ROANOKE COLONY DISAPPEARS
ENGLISH: Jamestown, 1607 1587 – Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke colony in NC fails – settlers disappeared “CRO” carved on the tree Joint-Stock Co.’s pay for next attempt John Smith leads settlers to Jamestown, VA