1. New World

2. Shaping of North America
Supercontinent
Contained all dry land
Began to drift away
Rocky Mtn. = “Roof of the America”
Lake Bonneville
Utah, Nevada, and Idaho
Drained to the Pacific Ocean through Snake and Columbia Rivers
Great Lake Remained

4. Peopling the Americas 35,000 yrs ago Bering Strait
Eurasia = North America
Migratory herds
Nomadic Asian hunters

5. Cont. 54 million people inhabited America’s Incas = Peru
Split into tribes
2,000 languages = diverse
Incas = Peru
Aztecs = Mexico
20 million
Elaborate cities
Commerce

6. Earliest Americans Agriculture Pueblo Size Sophistication of culture
Corn = Staff of Life
Spread across America
Transformation
Pueblo
Rio Grande = Irrigation
Adobe
Terraced buildings

7. Europeans Caravel = ship Portuguese Sugar plantations
Sail more closely into the wind
Portuguese
Trading posts along African shoreline
Slaves / Gold
Slave Brokers
Sugar plantations
Shape the New World

9. Cont. Spain takes over Portugal dominated Africa Spain looked westward
Ferdinand / Isabella
Race for wealth
Portugal dominated Africa
Spain looked westward

10. Columbus Renaissance = 14th century Columbus = sailed for Spain
Compass
Columbus = sailed for Spain
3 ships
6 weeks
Oct. 12, 1492
Bahamas
Global economic system emerged
Europe, Africa, and New World

11. Worlds collide Columbian exchange New World Old World Exotic animals
Rattle snakes, iguanas
Plants
Corn, tomato, potato, tobacco
Most important gift
Changed economy
Old World
crops / animals / disease
Seedlings of sugar cane, dandelions, daisies
Horse

12. Conquistadores 1500’s Spanish Explorers Treaty of Tordesillas
dominant power
Fanned out across Americas
Treaty of Tordesillas
Dividing Portugal and Spain

13. Explorers Vasco Nunez Balboa Ferdinand Magellan 1513 Panama
Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
1519
Tip of South America to Philippines
1st to sail around the world

15. Explorers Juan Ponce de Leon Francisco Coronado Hernando de Soto
Florida
Francisco Coronado
1540 – 1542
Arizona / New Mexico / Kansas
Grand Canyon / Rio Grande / Colorado River
Buffalo
Hernando de Soto
Gold seeking / 600 men
Mississippi

16. Explorers Hernan Cortes Aztecs 1519 Mexico Interpreters – Malinche
She helped the Spanish.
Became Involved with Cortes- Had the first mixed child.
Aztecs
Noche triste – June 30, 1520
Disease
Temples destroyed

17. Spanish America
160,000 Spaniards subjugated (Bring them under control) millions of Indians
Printing Press
Cathedrals
English
John Cabot
1497
Northeaster Coast of North America