1. Europe and the Americas

2. Conquistadores What were they? What was their goal?
Spanish men who traveled to the new world to “gain” wealth.
Used any means to achieve this goal!
Killing
Deception
Alliances
How were they able to conquer so many with so few?

3. The Requirement
I implore you to recognize the Church as a lady and in the name of the Pope take the King of Spain as Lord of this land and obey his mandates. If you do not then I tell you that with the help of god I will enter powerfully against you. I will make war everywhere and every way I can. I will subject you to the yoke and make you obedient to the Church and to his Majesty. I will take all your women and children and make them slaves... The deaths that occur from here on will be your own fault and not that of his Majesty nor the gentlemen that accompany me.

4. The First Spanish Conquests: The Aztecs
vs.
Hernan Cortes
Montezuma II

5. The Death of Montezuma II

6. Mexico Surrenders to Cortes

7. The First Spanish Conquests: The Incas
vs.
Francisco Pizarro
Atahualpa

8. Spanish Colonial Government
Council of Indies was the governing body of the New world.
Everything was based on birth
Peninsulares born in Spain of Spanish blood
Creoles born in New World of Spanish blood
Mestizos born of Spanish and Native parents
Mulattoes born of Native and African parents
Could have “Limpiando del Sangre” performed by the Church
For a small fee!

9. European Explorations

10. The “Columbian Exchange”
Squash
Avocado
Peppers
Sweet Potatoes
Turkey
Pumpkin
Tobacco
Quinine
Cocoa
Pineapple
Cassava
POTATO
Peanut
Tomato
Vanilla
CORN
Syphilis
Olive
COFFEE BEAN
Banana
Rice
Onion
Turnip
Honeybee
Barley
Grape
Peach
SUGAR CANE
Oats
Citrus Fruits
Pear
Wheat
HORSE
Cattle
Sheep
Pigs
Smallpox
Flu
Typhus
Measles
Malaria
Diphtheria
Whooping Cough

11. Treasures from the Americas!

12. Mercantilism OBJECTIVES
MAIN IDEA
1. Get as much gold and silver as you can. 2. Establish a favorable balance of trade. 3. Get colonies.
The economy and trade are essential to the health and safety of the nation.
Colonies exist to benefit the parent country
How can the government help this policy?
Tariffs – a tax placed on imported goods
Subsidies – money given by the government to make domestic products cheaper

14. Triangle Trade

15. Add to that there was an increase in the supply of precious metals.
With all these new commodities that everyone wanted, what was the economic consequence?
What does an increase in demand result in?
Add to that there was an increase in the supply of precious metals.
What does an increase in supply result in? What is the result?
Massive INFLATION in Europe – especially in which country?
It also created new opportunities to make money CAPITALISM

16. Colonies Expand
Dutch expand into South Africa known as Cape Colony – Boers. It was a refueling stop, and the first permanent colony in Africa
The British and French
look for colonies in the same
in the same areas.
This will lead to conflict as
their claims clash

17. 7 Years War 1756 Increasing rivalries between colonizing nations
War breaks out in Europe and spills into North America and Asia (India)
GB vs France (World War I?)
Europeans create alliances with native groups to defeat each other (French and Indian War, Sepoys
GB wins and it becomes the powerhouse of the world for the next ________________years.
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