1. How Europe found America
Exploration
How Europe found America

2. But First, Current Events
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4th period: green or red tabbed folders, due on Tues. the 23rd.
5th period: black and blue tabbed folders, due Thurs. the 25th.
6th period: blue and green tabbed folders, due Tues. the 23rd.
7th period: black and red tabbed folders, due Wed. the 24th.

3. Leif Eriksson

4. First, the Vikings Vikings settled Greenland and Iceland
Leif Eriksson is believed to be the first European to land on North America
An man named Thorfinn attempted to settle in North America
They didn’t get along well with Native Americans and ended up leaving
This was sometime around the year 1000

5. Christopher Columbus Let’s have a discussion:
What do you know about him?
Why is there so much controversy surrounding him?
What did his “discovery” lead to?
Where did he first land?

6. Why Explore?
God
Gold
Glory

7. Why America and Columbia?
Because of an Italian explorer, some tall tails and a German map maker
Amerigo Vespucci
He took several voyages to North America and erroneous information about those voyages spread quickly
A German cartographer drew up a map and put Amerigo’s name on it and it stuck

8. European Colonies
Treaty of Tordesillas

9. What happened to Native Americans?
Many of them were brought to Europe as slaves
A huge majority of them died
What does it mean to build up an immunity?
What about survival of the fittest?
Europe was really gross
Europeans had built up a tolerance to diseases
Native Americans were exposed to diseases they had never encountered before.

10. San Xavier Mission Oldest European structure in Arizona
Built in the late 1700
It was first planned by Father Kino in his mission to convert the Tohono O’odham