1. 24
AMERICAS

3. ENCOUNTERS
Spanish arrival

4. “AMERICA”
C.C. unaware
“Amerigo” Vespucci

5. CONQUEST
Aztecs, Incas
Cortes

6. ??? Aztec, Inca enemies Weapons, tactics Leaders killed
Disease (worst)

7. RESISTANCE
Many groups
Mayans
Yucatan, Guatemala
1540’s

8. POP. DEC.

10. SOCIETY
Encomendia
$$$

11. Economy
Hacienda
$$$
Slaves

13. HIERARCHY 4

14. MULTIRACIAL
Mixed
Basis: color
Lighter = better
Today?

15. CULTURE
Religion
Catholicism + indigenous

17. MAP 3.3 European Colonies of the Atlantic Coast, 1607–39 Virginia, on Chesapeake Bay, was the first English colony in North America, but by the mid-seventeenth century, Virginia was joined by settlements of Scandinavians on the Delaware River, and Dutch on the Hudson River, as well as English religious dissenters in New England. The territories indicated here reflect the vague boundaries of the early colonies.

18. ENGLISH
Jamestown, 1607
“Starving times”

21. S. PACIFIC
Guam
Depot
Tahiti $$