1. Columbus Crosses the Atlantic
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
Landed at San Salvador (Bahamas today)
Taino (Arawak)
Reasons for journey
Gold
Land
religion

2. Impact on Native Americans
Colonization
European methods est. during Crusades
Plantation system
Sophisticated weapons
Forced labor
Resistance and Conquest
Natives fought Europeans
Spanish won
Disease
Natives died from lack of immunity

3. Slave Trade Native workforce declines
Africans enslaved and brought to Americas
Valued as native population declines
At least 12 million people enslaved and removed from Africa by end of slavery

4. Impact on Europeans Columbian Exchange
Plants and animals from Western Hemisphere to Eastern
Items from Eastern to Western
E-Portugual, W-Spain

5. Conflict between Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
1493, mediated by Pope Alexander VI
Spain and Portugual divided W. Hemisphere