1. Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Three Worlds Meet
Europe, Africa, and the Americas

2. Early Native American Society
- Land Bridge
- Nomadic Lifestyle

3. Early Native American Society

4. Early Native American Society
- Agriculture develops
- Three Sister Farming
- Close relationship to the land
- Communal ownership

5. Early Native American Society
- Belief in universal spirit
Polytheistic
- Tribal communities
- Exception: Iroquois Confederation
- Men v. Women Roles

6. The City of Cahokia, with a population of more than 30,000, was the center of a farming society that arose on the Mississippi bottomlands near present-day St. Louis in the tenth century CE. The Cahokians built dozens of vast earthen mound covering six square miles, evidence of their complex social organization.
SOURCE:Painting by Michael Hampshire.Community Life at Cahokia .Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.

7. European Exploration
The Portuguese were the leaders during the Age of Exploration
Better ships and advanced navigation
In search of a sea route to Asia
Access to trade = silk, gems, gold, spices, slaves

8. Explorers to the New World
-Renaissance Influence
-Exploration Begins
Portugal Has Success
Vasco Da Gama

10. Explorers to the New World
Columbus (Italian Explorer) in 1492
-Ferdinand and Isabella
- Destination: Indies
- Result: San Salvador

11. Columbus 1492: Spain supports Columbus’ voyage across the Atlantic
Explored several Caribbean Islands and called the native people Indians
Attempted to convert the Indians to Christianity and also enslaved them

12. Explorers to the New World
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Conquistadors
- Spanish Explorers
- God, Gold, Glory
- Francisco Coronado
- Hernando de Soto
- Hernan Cortes

13. Impact of Contact -Columbus’ impression -Colonization by force
-Effects of disease
-Importation of Africans
-Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided all “heathen” lands between Spain and Portugal

15. This woodcut, illustrating a 1505 German edition of Amerigo Vespucci's account of his voyage to the New World in , is the first image of American Indians published in Europe. As arriving European vessels appear on the horizon, a group of befeathered Indians engage in a cannibal feast. Three warriors with bows stand on the right, while under the bower a couple kisses as they share the severed human limbs. In the center a mother nurses a baby and tends children. The tender details underscore the horror of the scene.
Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek,Munich

16. Colombian Exchange - Transfer of goods between societies
- Americas sent corn, potatoes, squash, tomatoes, peanuts, tobacco
- Europe sent horses, cows, pigs, and technology

17. First European Settlements
-Spanish-- St. Augustine, Florida 1565
(SW, Florida, Texas)
-French– Canada, Mississippi River
-Dutch—New York
-English—East Coast

19. Spanish Settlements Most Famous Settlements: Common Characteristics:
New Mexico and Florida
Common Characteristics:
Convert Natives to Catholicism
Racially and Ethnically Diverse
Black Legend:
Idea that the Conquistadors only
hurt Native Americans

20. Cruelties Used by the Spaniards on the Indians
The Cruelties Used by the Spaniards on the Indians, from a 1599 English edition of The Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas. These scenes were copied from a series of engravings produced by Theodore de Bry that accompanied an earlier edition.

21. First English Attempt at Colonization
Roanoke, NC (1585)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Lost Colony
John White
Virginia Dare

22. First English Attempt at Colonization