1. Discovery and Colonization
Europe and the Americas Collide

2. What was Europe like just before the discovery of the “New World”?
THE DARK AGES!
Time period dominated by RELIGION
The Crusades
The Plague
THE RENAISSANCE!
Time period dominated by CHANGE
Religious change: The Protestant Reformation
Technology: Art, Literature, Navigation (Discovery!)
Nations Organize around strong Monarchies

3. Europe: s

7. What was going on in the Americas prior to Columbus?
The GREAT EMPIRES of Central and South America: Maya, Aztec, Inca
Aztec

10. More than 500 unique cultures existed across North America, each suited to its regional geography and climate.

12. What effects did the discovery of the Americas have on BOTH sides?
The meeting of these two worlds was more of a collision… that turned into an alien invasion.
Although the Native cultures were sophisticated in many areas, they lacked the weapons technology to defend themselves.
European philosophy and religion made it easy for them to justify conquering and taking.

13. The “Columbian Exchange”
The Europeans got: Potatoes, CORN, SUGAR, TOBACCO, chili pepper, tomato, cocoa, GOLD, SILVER, SLAVE LABOR, LAND
The Americans got: SMALL POX, Bubonic Plague, Influenza, Leprosy, Cholera, STDs, Guns, Horses, goats, chickens, wheat, carrot, coffee, apple, CHRISTIANITY, SPANISH

14. What reasons did Spain used to justify seizing control of the lands it discovered and the civilizations that lived there?
The 3 G’s:
GOD
GOLD
GLORY

15. A modern political map of the Americas, like this one below, is very familiar. It's easy to take for granted that most North Americans are white and speak English and that the predominant languages in South America are Spanish and Portuguese. But how did these European people end up in the Americas?

16. Now, look at this map. It represents the Spanish empire in the Americas circa 1800 (after the American Revolution). Much of the modern-day United States was Spanish.

17. Here’s the extent of Spain’s global empire