1. Hernando de Soto and the Spanish Missions
European Exploration
Hernando de Soto and the Spanish Missions

2. What were the Spanish looking for?
What did they find?

3. Spanish explorers looked for wealth
1513 Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
De Balboa crosses Panama and reaches the Pacific Ocean
1519 Cortez conquers the Aztecs
1535 Francisco Pizzaro conquers the Inca
Pizzaro captures the richest silver mines in the world

4. Who explores Georgia and the southeast?
What is he looking for?
What happens to many Native Americans?

5. 1539 Hernando de Soto He wants gold
leaves Cuba with 600 men 200 horses and other animals
He lands in Florida, and in 1540 enters southwest Georgia (near present day Albany)
He wants gold
He is outnumbered but his men had superior weapons, rode horses and wore armor
De Soto’s men kill thousands, but many more are killed by disease (measles, small pox, influenza, and whooping cough)

6. What happens to this expedition?

7. Most of his army dies of starvation and disease and de Soto himself died along the Mississippi River
Many other European explorers follow

8. Hernando de Soto Expedition circles back to the Mississippi,
where de Soto
dies, May 1542
Hernando de Soto
Expedition crosses the Mississippi into Arkansas near Memphis,
May, 1541
Survivors build boats that
carry them downriver to the Gulf and eventually to Mexico, 1543
After de Soto’s death, expedition
heads into east Texas, wandering
for months before returning to
the Mississippi, 1542
De Soto lands in Tampa
Bay area, May 25, 1539

9. Who establishes missions along the coast of Georgia?

10. 1565 Pedro Menendez est. St. Augustine
The Spanish
1565 Pedro Menendez est. St. Augustine
1566 Spain move up to St. Catherine's and Cumberland Islands
The mission of Santa Catalina is established on St. Catherine’s Island
Region is named Guale (Wallie) for the Indians found there
Missions are established on St. Simons and Sapelo Islands
1500’s Spain controls the New World through missions
Spain becomes rich and powerful from the gold and silver she takes

11. How do England and France feel?

12. This leads to resentment (Jealousy) from other European nations
France and England fight to gain a share of the treasure
English sea captains (J. Hawkins, F. Drake, R. Greenville) capture Spanish ships and burn Spanish settlements in the new world

13. How does Spain respond?

14. King Phillip of Spain send the “Invincible Armada” to capture England in 1588

15. What is the result?

16. England and the weather defeat the Armada

17. The Columbian Biological Exchange
From Europe
From The New World
Diseases:
Smallpox Measles Chicken Pox Malaria Yellow Fever Influenza The Common Cold
Syphilis Polio Hepatitis Encephalitis

18. The Columbian Biological Exchange
From Europe
From The New World
Animals:
Horses
Cattle
Pigs
Sheep
Goats
Chickens
Turkeys Llamas Alpacas Guinea Pigs

19. The Columbian Biological Exchange
From Europe
From The New World
Plants:
Rice Wheat Barley Oats Coffee Sugarcane Bananas Melons Olives Dandelions Daisies Clover Ragweed Kentucky Bluegrass
Corn (Maize) Potatoes (White & Sweet Varieties) Beans (Snap, Kidney, & Lima Varieties) Tobacco Peanuts Squash Peppers Tomatoes Pumpkins Pineapples Cacao (Source of Chocolate) Chicle (Source of Chewing Gum) Papayas Manioc (Tapioca) Guavas Avocados

21. Sources
London, Bonnie. Georgia and the American Experience. Atlanta, Georgia: Clairmont Press Inc., Print.
Tallant, Harold D. “The Columbian Biological Exchange”. Dec Georgetown College. Web. July <