1. Video
AGE OF EXPLORATION
CONQUEST IN AMERICA

2. COLONIZATION IN THE AMERICAS
CONQUISTADOR: Spanish conqueror
After Columbus & Magellan…
Hernan Cortes (Spain) - conquistador who arrived in Mexico in 1519, looking for lands to claim & searching for “City of Gold”

3. HERNAN CORTES vs Came across Aztec Empire Greeted by Montezuma
Video 
Came across Aztec Empire Greeted by Montezuma
Aztecs thought Spaniards were “iron-clad gods”
Defeated Aztecs (1. Superior weapons, 2. Used enemies to help, 3. Disease)
Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital) became Mexico City

4. FRANCISCO PIZARRO vs
Bio. Video 
Conquistador who arrived in Inca Empire (Peru) in 1523
Captured Atahualpa for ransom of gold/silver; silver became a HUGE commodity!
Spanish eventually conquered, taking over lands from Ecuador to Chile
Video 

5. SPANISH ECONOMY & SOCIAL CLASSES
Can only import/export with Spain
MERCANTILISM: how much gold/silver a country has
ORDER OF SOCIAL CLASS in New Spain:
Peninsulares – born in Spain
Creoles – American-born descendents of Spanish settlers
Mestizos – Native & Spanish descent
Mulattoes – Spanish & African descent
African slaves
Native Americans

6. The Triangle Trade & Columbian Exchange
Age of Exploration

7. The Triangle Trade
Middle Passage
Video
**lower mortality rate**

8. What was the Triangle Trade???
Triangular Trade: network of trade between the Americas, Europe and coastal Africa
raw materials (sugar, cotton, tobacco, etc.) from Americas to Europe;
manufactured goods (guns, rum, etc.) from Europe to Africa;
Slaves from Africa to Americas
(ivory, gold back to Europe)

9. Why would African kings engage in the slave trade?
The Gun-Slave cycle
New guns are used to get more slaves
Guns are given in exchange for slaves
Why would African kings engage in the slave trade?

14. The Columbian Exchange

15. What was the Columbian Exchange???
Columbian Exchange = the exchange of goods from Americas to Europe & from Europe to America
– new plants, animals, crops, foods, disease, technology, and ideas
This kind of exchange is called cultural diffusion
Influx of food results in population growth, especially in Europe
Influx of disease results in decline in population in the Americas

16. What was exchanged???
from Americas: corn, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squash, beans, pineapples, tobacco, chocolate, quinine
from Europe: wheat, melons, grapes, bananas, coconut, coffee, sugar cane, honeybees, olives, onions, horses, cattle, firearms, smallpox, whooping cough, malaria, measles