1. Directions Grab the THREE sheets of paper off of the bookshelf.
Turn in your P.E.G.S. Graphic organizer
Get out your name tag, if you don’t have one then make another!!!
Begin working on your BELL-RINGER

2. Spanish
Exploration

3. A Map of the Known World, pre- 1492

4. Motives for European Exploration
Crusades  by-pass intermediaries to get to Asia.
Renaissance  curiosity about other lands and peoples.
Reformation  refugees & missionaries (religion).……GOD
Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue (money)…….GOLD
Technological advances allowed for better sea travel (less risk of death).
Fame and fortune…….GLORY

5. New Maritime Technologies Better Maps [Portulan]
Hartman Astrolabe (1532)
Mariner’s Compass
Sextant

6. New Weapons Technology

7. Portuguese Maritime Empire
Christopher Columbus searching for a westward route to Asia.
Exploring the west coast of Africa.
Vasco da Gama, first European to reach India through sea.

8. Christopher Columbus [1451-1506]
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
“discovered” the “New World” in 1492.
Columbus called the Native Americans, Indians, because he believed he had reached the West Indies!

9. Columbus’ Four Voyages

10. Other Voyages of Exploration

11. The First Spanish Conquests: The Aztecs
vs.
Fernando Cortez
Montezuma II

12. Mexico Surrenders to Cortez

13. The First Spanish Conquests: The Incas
vs.
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish Conquistador
Atahualpa

14. Treasures from the Americas!

15. Impact of European Expansion
Native populations ravaged by disease.
Influx of gold, and especially silver, into Europe created an inflationary economic climate. [“Price Revolution”]
New products introduced across the continents [“Columbian Exchange”].
Deepened colonial rivalries.