1. Here come the Europeans!

2. Agenda
1. Bell Ringer: What are the geographic factors that led to various types of dwellings for Native Americans? (10) 2. Notes: Europe and the Atlantic World (20) 3. The Fall of the Aztecs, role of the Columbian Exchange(10) 4. Where did they settle? Colonization of North America Map (15) 5. Primary Analysis, Columbus’ diaries. Effects on depiction of Natives. (15) 6. Causes and Effects of the Age of Exploration (10) HW: Review Notes, Kahoot next class on the Native population, and European migration.

3. European Culture and Society
Age of the Renaissance
A movement towards absolute governments
Catholic Church begins to lose power.
Peasant revolts were common, a product of famine and a gap between rich and poor.

4. Religious Upheavals
The Protestant Reformation led to changes in religious power.
Henry VIII brings Anglican Church to England, only to have religion reversed under his daughter, Mary.
Elizabeth would ensure Protestantism as the dominant religion, but Calvinists (eventually the Puritans) would have conflict with the church.

5. Europeans reach America
1492, Columbus reaches North America.
Columbus wanted a trade route direct with Asia, but religious fervor and desire for wealth also consumed him.
Colonized Hispaniola (modern day Haiti/Dominican Repub) after the Treaty of Tordesillas
Cabot and Columbus thought it was Asia.

6. The Conquistadors
Encomiendas established with Columbus, enslaving Native Americans.
Leads to slavery from West Africa.
Cortez and Dona Maria take over the Aztec Empire in 1520.
Spaniards arrive (Columbian Exchange)
Population million
Disease brings it to 700,000 in eighty years.
Spain would also claim Florida under Ponce De Leon

7. Colonizing from the French
Jacques Cartier begin Colonizing the Americas in the 1540s
It only lasts two years, frequent attacks from Natives and death from Scurvy leads to it being abandoned.
French Huguenots tried to colonize South Carolina. Spanish forces killed everyone.
Realized that reciprocity is key, needed to work WITH Native population, began trading beaver pelts.
New France established in 1608.
Battle of Lake Champlain. Iroquois alliances created.

8. England’s efforts to Colonize
Francis Drake sails around the world, coming into contact with Natives in California.
Rivals with Spain, the Spanish attempt to Colonize in 1572 near the Chesapeake failed with the Powhatan Natives.
Then came Roanoke, chosen by a charter gained by Sir Walter Raleigh

9. Mystery of Roanoke
1584, Sir Walter Raleigh begins Colony on Roanoke Island.
Natives were friendly, shared crops with the Colonists.
English soldiers kill Roanoke indian leader, Wingina in 1586.
Conflict intensifies between Spain and England, and ships are unable to return after Drake stops by in A crew finally makes landfall in 1590.
Everyone is gone, all that is left is rusty armor, and CROATOAN cut into post.