1. Review – 9/7 1. What group of people is Pocahontas a part of?
2. Who are the two groups fighting in this movie?
3. Why are these two groups fighting?

2. Native Americans

3. Native Americans Before 1492
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
Maya:
Guatemala
Aztec:
Mexico
Taken over by the Spanish (Hernan Cortes)
Inca: 1200
South America

4. NORTH AMERICA Algonquin: East Apaches: Plains Navajo: Southwest
Iroquois League: East
6 Native American tribes united together for mutual protection against outsiders

5. Native American Culture
Land
Land cannot be bought or sold
Land = life
Religion
The world was full of spirits

6. Family
Family was the most important part of culture

7. Jobs Division of labor: the job you had was based on:
1. Gender (if you’re a boy or girl)
2. Age
3. Status (your place in your culture)

8. Many Native Americans were nomadic: did not settle, moved around

9. West Africa

10. QUIZ ON FRIDAY! Native Americans The Continents
What continent Native Americans live on?
Other names for Native Americans
Name ONE group of Native Americans
The Continents
Which continent we live on
Which continent Africans are from
Which continent Europeans are from

11. West Africa Before 1492 Ghana
Controlled trade in Africa (Trans-Saharan trade)
Gold, salt, and slaves were the most popular trade items
Mali
Like European countries because one king ruled one area

12. West African Culture Family Based around families (____________)
Oldest family members in charge
Religion
Nature full of spirits, even things
Were alive
1 big creator

13. Jobs Farming/hunting/fishing Trading Used slave labor
Land was by the village together, not just one person
Trading
Used slave labor

14. Enslavement of West Africans
Europeans began to buy West African to use as slaves
West African slaves worked on sugar plantations in the Americas
Plantation: ________________________________________________
West Africans
Europeans

15. Triangular Trade
Trade of ideas, goods, and people between the Americas, Africa, and Europe that began in the 1500s

16. The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was part of Triangular Trade when many Africans were shipped to the Americas.
2 million slaves died on the boats
Boat ride was 1-6 months long

17. Warm Up – 9/9 1. What continent do we live on?
2. The first Americans were
called____.
3. Which 2 continents did the first
Americans live on?
4. What continent are Europeans
from?

18. Europeans

19. Europeans Culture Family Nuclear family: parents and children Religion
Christianity
Religion was so important that Europeans sent missionaries to make other people Christians too

20. European Exploration Europeans started exploring the Americas
One of the first Europeans to the “New World” is Christopher Columbus

21. Spanish

22. Spanish Empire in the Americas
Spanish conquistadors (conquerors) came to the Americas
Europeans wanted to explore because God, Gold, and Glory

23. New Spain Hernan Cortes was a conquistador who took over the Aztecs
Who were the Aztecs? European Native American African
Cortes and the Spanish conquered the empire because they had luck
Lots of Native Americans died once they met Europeans – why?
____________________

24. New Spain
In place of the Aztec empire, Cortes built a new colony called New Spain
Spain forced their culture on the Native Americans
Most of the settlers (people who moved there) were men

25. Native Americans in New Spain
Native Americans were slaves in the encomienda system
Native Americans were forced to farm for Spanish on plantations

26. French

27. French Colonists in the Americas
Why did the Europeans explore the Americas?
G________
France came for the money, Spain did not
Most of their money came from the fur trade
To get to the furs, they explored west
France had more land but less people than the British and Spanish colonies
Called New France

28. Native Americans in New France
The French treated the Native Americans as trading partners
What did they trade? _________
Natives were not slaves in New France
There were less conflicts between the natives and the French than between the natives and the Spanish

29. NEW SPAIN NEW FRANCE

30. Columbian exchange

31. Banana (Europe)
Sweet Potato (North America)
Citrus Fruits (Europe)
Tobacco (North America)
Coffee Beans (Europe)
Tomato (North America)
Grains (wheat, rice, barley, oats) (Europe)
Turkey (North America)
Grape (Europe)
Vanilla (North America)
Horse (Europe)
Avocado (North America)
Olive (Europe)
Corn (North America)
Onion (Europe)
Peanut (North America)
Peach & Pear (Europe)
Peppers (North America)
Pig (Europe)
Pineapple (North America)
Sheep (Europe)
Potato (North America)
Turnip (Europe)
Pumpkin (North America)
Sugar Cane (Europe)
Squash (North America)

32. Columbian Exchange
Portuguese sail to West Africa  Europeans and Africans interact
Bring African slaves over to “New World”  Africans and Native Americans
Columbus sails to “New World”  Europeans and Native Americans interact
Columbian Exchange = introduction of new plants and animals to Europe, Africa, and the Americas.