1. America’s Beginnings

2. The Beginning
Who got here first???

3. Leif Eriksson (c. 975 – 1020)

4. Viking Map

5. Viking Ship

6. Viking Ship Discovered in Gokstad, Norway in 1880

7. Marco Polo – Caravan to India

8. Marco Polo’s Travels

9. Marco Polo’s Description of the World (1298)
Polo’s book made Europeans curious about the rest of the world.
Led to the Renaissance.

10. The Renaissance
Gets people curious about the world around them.

11. The Renaissance (1350 – 1600)
Cultural movement that ended the Middle Ages and marked the beginning of the modern era.

12. “Renaissance Man”

13. Humanism Essence of the Renaissance Intellectual movement
Man is at the center
Greek & Roman classics contained all the lessons needed to live a moral & good life

14. The Mona Lisa

15. The Mona Lisa

16. Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press--1450

17. Gutenberg’s Printing Press

18. Gutenberg’s Bible—First Book Printed

19. The Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Church is born!

20. Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)

21. Romans 1:17(King James)
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

22. Indulgences

23. Purgatory – Intermediary Point Between Heaven and Hell

24. Johan Tetzel

25. 95 Theses

26. 95 Theses – Luther’s Objections to Practices of the Catholic Church

27. “Protestants”
Those who rejected the teaching of the Catholic Church.

28. The Age of Exploration
New worlds are discovered.

29. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal (1394 – 1460)

30. Prester John

31. Portuguese Exploration

32. Christopher Columbus

33. Voyages of Christopher Columbus

34. Where Did Columbus Land?
San Salvador (Bahamas), Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, and the coasts of Central America and northern South America in 1493,1498,and 1502.
October 12, 1492 – 1st Landing on San Salvador—the New World is ‘discovered’

35. Amerigo Vespucci (1474 – 1512)

36. Balboa (1475 – 1519)

37. Ferdinand Magellan

38. John Cabot