1. The Americas Colonized

2. Who Is This Man???

3. Who Is This Man???

4. Who Is This Man???

5. Who Is This Man???

6. Who Is This Man???

7. Who Is This Man???

8. The Many Portraits of Columbus

10. 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

11. “In Fourteen-Hundred and Ninety- Three,
Columbus Stole all he could see.”
-Traditional Verse Updated

12. Proving the World was Round???

13. Martin Behaim
Invented the first GLOBE

14. The Need for a New Trading Route

21. Why is Columbus Famous?? Columbus “discovers” America?
Vikings (Norsemen) land in Newfoundland
Afro-Phoenicians (N. Africa) landed in Americas

24. Why does Columbus get credit and is Famous???

25. 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

26. Why did European Countries want to begin colonizing foreign lands?

28. Why / How were European Colonists able to successfully colonize in the Americas?

29. “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)

30. DISEASES = the key to successful European colonization
Smallpox
Natives have no immune resistance
(90% populations wiped out)

32. “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)

33. What effect did European Colonization have on …
Europeans???
Native Americans???
The World???

34. THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

36. 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.”

37. ROANOKE COLONY DISAPPEARS

38. 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