1. Exploration

2. What motivated the Europeans to come to the Americas
What motivated the Europeans to come to the Americas? Who were the main European countries to begin exploring?

3. Exploration

4. Why is it important to sell more than you buy?
Mercantilism
When a country sells (exports) more than they buy (import)
Why is it important to sell more than you buy?
Why is mercantilism a motivation for exploration?

5. Did Christopher Colombus discover America?

6. Native American Tribes

7. Contributions of Native Americans
Agriculture: Introduction of new foods, such as maize, corn, squash.
Irrigation: use of water-ways and waste removal systems.
Hunting Methods: use of weapons such as harpoons, bows and arrows and spears.
Adaptation of Environment: use of all animal parts for self-benefit such as the use of buffalo.
What term best describes this exchange of ideas from the Native Americans to the Europeans?

8. Pre-Colonial Period Civilizations in the Americas
Aztecs- Mexico
Inca- Peru
Mayans- Central America
Land not colonized – native tribes in civilizations in Mexico, Central America, and South America
Arrival of French, Spanish, and British destroyed many Native American civilizations because of weapons, disease, and warring between tribes and Spaniards

9. Columbus comes to America
Pre-Colonial Period
1492
Columbus comes to America

10. Pre-Colonial Period – Important People – Christopher Columbus
Convinces Queen Isabella to let him go to “India” to look for more spices in the East
Arrives in America
Continues to make trips to America

11. Pre-Colonial Period - Columbian Exchange
Exchange of animals, plants and diseases between the Americas and Europe during the late 1400s and early 1500s.

12. Pre-Colonial Period - Columbian Exchange

13. Why is the Columbian Exchange important to us today?

14. Conflict over land
Portugal and Spain believed they both had rights to the new land in what they believed to be Asia
This increased the exploration rivalry between Spain and Portugal
The Treaty of Tordesilla of 1494: Line that divided Spain and Portugal’s claims. Spain got land west of the line, which included most of the Americas, Portugal got lands to the east which included parts of modern-day Brazil

15. After the Europeans came to America, there was a need for a strong labor force
Why?
Who did the Europeans

18. Legacy of the Columbian Exchange
By % of the United States was from Europe!
How many came after Columbus?
8-11 million Africans
200,000 Germans
150,000 Spanish
2,000,000 British