1. The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe and the Americas 1492-1750
Ch. 15

2. Hernando Cortes Conquistadors
Spanish first European settlers in the Americas
Conquered Aztecs in 1521
Explain how he was able to do this.

3. Francisco Pizarro
Conquered Incan Empire

4. Effects of the Spanish Conquistador
Native Americans perished
disease
Spanish Empire expanded (gold)
Sea routes

5. Spanish Empire Controlled trade Strict Spread Christianity
Encomienda= Bartolome de Las Casas
Brought Africans to Americas
Churches built universities in the colonies
encomienda

6. Colonial Society and Culture
Culture blending – Africa, Native America, Spanish
Society
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Mulattoes
Education – Church built universities

7. Beyond Spanish Empire Brazil –Economy based on wood
Pirates in search of gold on Portuguese, Spanish, British, and Dutch ships

8. New France Canada - Louisiana Furs, trapping, and fishing
No Protestants

9. English Colonies Jamestown the 1st colony
Tobacco and religious persecution
Why were English colonies established?

11. Struggle for Power
Explain why the French and Indian war fought?

12. Atlantic Slave Trade
Led by the Portuguese
Why Africans?

13. Triangle Trade Europeans – transported goods to Africa for slaves
African rulers and traders seized captives in the interior and brought them to the coast.
Merchants bought sugar/cotton and sold them back in Europe

14. Middle Passage
Explain what took place during the middle passage

15. Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Explain how the slave trade affected the Africans?
The slave trade was an economic system

16. Columbian Exchange
Most important items brought to the rest of the world? Why?
Livestock introduced to the Americas?
From Africa?
Grains introduced to the Americas
The most deadly brought to the Americas?
Explain why the global population exploded?

17. Commercial Revolution
Explain why inflation occured.
Price Revolution?
Capitalism?
Exploring New Business
Bypassed guilds

18. Mercantilism Rises Mercantilism? Explain the role of the colony.
Explain how national wealth increased.
Explain how economic changes affected the Europeans.