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1 Transatlantic Encounters
Coach Martin

2 Big Idea Columbus’s voyages set off a chain of events that bring together the peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas

3 Columbus Crosses the Atlantic
Columbus set sail searching for a shorter trade route to Asia with three ships 1) Nina 2) Pinta 3) Santa Maria Columbus reached land on October 12, 1492 and met a group call Taino “nobles ones” He renamed their island San Salvador and claimed it for Spain

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5 Gold, Land, and Religion Columbus goals for his voyage:
1) Find Gold 2) Take Land 3) Convert those he encountered to Christianity Spanish Foothold Columbus makes three more trips to America His goal with these trips: Create an Empire

6 The Impact on Native Americans
Methods of Colonization Established colonies on the Americas Controlling them from a far Forced Native Americans to work as slaves Resistance and Conquest The natives of the Caribbean fought back but failed Signs of events to come between Europeans and Natives

7 Impact on Native Americans
Disease Ravages the Native Americans Native Americans had no immunity to the diseases brought by Europeans Hundreds of thousands die from small pox, measles, chicken pox, and typhus Slave Trade Begins As the Native Americans died; Europeans began to bring in Africans as slave labor 12 million people were taken in the slave trade

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9 The Impact on Europeans
The Columbian Exchange Global transfer of living things between Native Americans and Europeans European Rivalries Fight for New Lands A feud between Portugal and Spain had to be ended by the Pope Alexander VI Treaty of Tordesillas Agreed to divide the western hemisphere between the two

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11 A New Society Is Born Columbus returns to Spain (1504), disappointed did not find China People transformed as unfamiliar customs come together Impossible to impose European ways on others— blended society emerges


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