1. Lecture 2: Encounters and Collisions

2. European Expansion and the Age of Discovery TERMS and IDENTIFICATIONS: caravel, Hernando Cortés, The Columbian Exchange, smallpox, The Destruction of the Indies, Roanoke From 11th to 14th centuries, European agricultural production more than doubled, population nearly tripled. Commercial Expansion Renaissance, 14 to 16 th centuries -- Humanistic Rise of monarchies Technological advances: gunpowder, printing press, compass Discovery and Conquest –Portuguese explore African coast during 1400s and reach India by 1497 –Columbus’s first voyage, 1492 –Hernando Cortés conquers the Aztecs, 1521; Pizarro conquers Incas, 1528 –Cabeza de Vaca journeys, 1528-1536 –Cartier reconnoiters the St. Lawrence river, 1530s –Hernadno de Soto, 1539-1542; Coronado expeditions, 1539-41 –Roanoke, 1584-87

3. Spice Routes & Silk Road

4. The Caravel, 1400s Fast and could sail into wind Sturdier construction Used extensively by Portuguese to explore African Coast Niña & Pinta

5. Africa in the 15 th Century

6. 15 th Century Portuguese Explorations

7. Colonization of Atlantic Islands

9. European Expansion and the Age of Discovery TERMS AND IDENTIFICATIONS: caravel, Cortés, The Columbian Exchange, smallpox, The Destruction of the Indies, Roanoke From 11th to 14th centuries, European agricultural production more than doubled, population nearly tripled. Commercial Expansion Renaissance, 14th to 16 th centuries -- Humanistic Rise of monarchies Technological advances: gunpowder, printing press, compass Discovery and Conquest –Portuguese explore African coast during 1400s and reach India by 1497 –Columbus’s first voyage, 1492 –Hernando Cortés conquers the Aztecs, 1521; Pizarro conquers Incas, 1528 –Cabeza de Vaca journeys, 1528-1536 –Cartier reconnoiters the St. Lawrence river, 1530s –Hernadno de Soto, 1539-1542; Coronado expeditions, 1539-41 –Roanoke, 1584-87

10. Columbus’ First Voyage

11. Columbus meeting the Tainos

12. Taino Indians, circa 1500

14. “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies,” Bartolomé de las Casas, published 1552

15. Cortes (Aztecs/Mexico) Pizarro (Peru/Incans)

16. Tenochtitlán

18. Diego Rivera, The Great City of Techochtitlan (1945)

19. European Expansion and the Age of Discovery TERMS AND IDENTIFICATIONS: caravel, Cortés, The Columbian Exchange, smallpox, The Destruction of the Indies, Roanoke From 11th to 14th centuries, European agricultural production more than doubled, population nearly tripled. Commercial Expansion Renaissance, 14th to 16 th centuries -- Humanistic Rise of monarchies Technological advances: gunpowder, printing press, compass Discovery and Conquest –Portuguese explore African coast during 1400s and reach India by 1497 –Columbus’s first voyage, 1492 –Hernando Cortés conquers the Aztecs, 1521; Pizarro conquers Incas, 1528 –Cabeza de Vaca journeys, 1528-1536 –Cartier reconnoiters the St. Lawrence river, 1530s –Hernadno de Soto, 1539-1542; Coronado expeditions, 1539-41 –Roanoke, 1584-87

20. Cabeza de Vaca, 1528-1536

21. Jacques Cartier, 1530s

22. Hernando De Soto, 1539-1542

23. Francisco Vásquez Coronado, 1540-1541

24. Roanoke, 1584-1587

25. I.Conquest by disease A.Smallpox B.Syphilis II. Conquest by Plants A. Europeans learn to cultivate/utilize new world plants B. development of cash crops (esp. sugar!) C. Europeans learn to cultivate their own old world plants in the Americas D. the problem of weeds. III. Conquest by Animals A. pigs gone wild B. animals of war: horses/bull mastiffs IV. New World Food→European population explosion Columbian Exchange Why did Europeans conquer indigenous Americans so quickly?

26. Path of the Eruptive Fevers

27. Aztec victims of smallpox -- Florentine Codex

28. Albrecht Durer, “The Syphilitic ”

29. I.Conquest by disease A.Smallpox B.Syphilis II. Conquest by Plants A. Europeans learn to cultivate/utilize new world plants B. development of cash crops (esp. sugar!) C. Europeans learn to cultivate their own old world plants in the Americas D. the problem of weeds. III. Conquest by Animals A. pigs gone wild B. animals of war: horses/bull mastiffs IV. New World Food→European population explosion Columbian Exchange Why did Europeans conquer indigenous Americans so quickly?