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Spanish in the Americas Spanish in the Americas

Christopher Columbus In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella Stop, stop, stop! This is all so horribly boring. Who cares?? What did he DO anyway? Stop, stop, stop! This is all so horribly boring. Who cares?? What did he DO anyway?

Learning Targets I can evaluate the impact Christopher Columbus had on the eventual formation of the United States. I can describe Columbus’s motives for sailing in 1492 and for colonizing the Americas. I can describe the treatment of Native Americans by the Spaniards. I can describe the Columbian Exchange and its effects. I can predict how Columbus’s actions will impact future colonization in the Americas.

Columbus’s Motives for Sailing Wanted to find a fast route to Asia –To avoid the Middle East “middlemen” –To make more money with trade

Motives for Colonization Native inhabitants were the Arawaks. Columbus describes them as: –“friendly and well-dispositioned people who bear no arms.” Two days later, he writes: –“You could control and subjugate them, making them do whatever you want.”

What does it mean to “subjugate” them? To make them slaves Why does Columbus want slaves? To make them mine for gold, and so he can feel superior It’s about MONEY and POWER!

Bartolomé de Las Casas He recorded the brutality of the Spanish. –Forced Arawaks to carry them on their backs. –The token system—without a token around your neck, your hands got cut off. –Arawaks were hunted for sport. –They were killed to use as dog food. –They began committing mass suicides to escape the torture. –Women aborted their babies, so they would not be subjected to the Spaniards’ cruelty. By 1555, all Arawaks were dead.

Columbian Exchange Columbian Exchange - Exchange of goods and ideas to and from Europe, Africa, and the Americas Diseases from Europe weakened or killed the Arawaks—(hence the inability to fight back).

Learning Targets I can evaluate the impact Christopher Columbus had on the eventual formation of the United States.  I can describe Columbus’s motives for sailing in 1492 and for colonizing the Americas.  I can describe the treatment of Native Americans by the Spaniards.  I can describe the Columbian Exchange and its effects.  I can predict how Columbus’s actions will impact future colonization in the Americas.