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

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

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

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