America’s Beginnings
The Beginning Who got here first???
Leif Eriksson (c. 975 – 1020)
Viking Map
Viking Ship
Viking Ship Discovered in Gokstad, Norway in 1880
Marco Polo – Caravan to India
Marco Polo’s Travels 1271 - 1298
Marco Polo’s Description of the World (1298) Polo’s book made Europeans curious about the rest of the world. Led to the Renaissance.
The Renaissance Gets people curious about the world around them.
The Renaissance (1350 – 1600) Cultural movement that ended the Middle Ages and marked the beginning of the modern era.
“Renaissance Man”
Humanism Essence of the Renaissance Intellectual movement Man is at the center Greek & Roman classics contained all the lessons needed to live a moral & good life
The Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa
Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press--1450
Gutenberg’s Printing Press
Gutenberg’s Bible—First Book Printed
The Protestant Reformation The Protestant Church is born!
Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
Romans 1:17(King James) For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Indulgences
Purgatory – Intermediary Point Between Heaven and Hell
Johan Tetzel
95 Theses
95 Theses – Luther’s Objections to Practices of the Catholic Church
“Protestants” Those who rejected the teaching of the Catholic Church.
The Age of Exploration New worlds are discovered.
Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal (1394 – 1460)
Prester John
Portuguese Exploration
Christopher Columbus
Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Where Did Columbus Land? San Salvador (Bahamas), Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, and the coasts of Central America and northern South America in 1493,1498,and 1502. October 12, 1492 – 1st Landing on San Salvador—the New World is ‘discovered’
Amerigo Vespucci (1474 – 1512)
Balboa (1475 – 1519)
Ferdinand Magellan
John Cabot