1. Mapping European Conquest of the Americas

2. The Geo-Political World Today About 200 Nations with About 7 Billion People

3. Larger Civilizations in 1500

4. Ancient “Silk Road”

5. Age of Exploration 1400s-1600s
A desire for a sea route to Asia to make more profit from trading
A surge in intellectual curiosity
Improvements in cartography
Improvements in navigational tools
Improvements in ships and sails

6. Larger Civilizations in 1500

9. Cortez
1519

11. Larger Civilizations in 1500

12. South American Native Cultures Prior to European Conquest

13. North American Native Cultures Prior to European Conquest

15. Tenochtitlan Model Aztec Capital

16. Temple at Tenochtitlan

17. Cultural Sophistication
Aztec Writing
Aztec Calendar

18. Europeans Arrive in the Americas 1492

19. European Conquest
of the Americas
around 1776

20. How did Europeans Think About “La Conquista” Mural Conquest
How did Europeans Think About “La Conquista” Mural Conquest? By Diego Rivera

21. Let’s analyze some historical primary source documents
Bull Romanus Pontifex (1455)
Bull Inter Caetera (1493)
Requerimiento (1513)
The Doctrine of Discovery
Modern Application at UN (2012)

22. US Supreme Court 1825 Johnson v. M'Intosh
“On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe ... as they were all in pursuit of nearly the same object, it was necessary, in order to avoid conflicting settlements, and consequent war with each other, to establish a principle which all should acknowledge as the law by which the right of acquisition, which they all asserted, should be regulated as between themselves. This principle was that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects, or by whose authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession. ... The history of America, from its discovery to the present day, proves, we think, the universal recognition of these principles.”
Justice John Marshall

23. US Supreme Court 2005 City of Sherrill v
US Supreme Court 2005 City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York
“Under the ‘doctrine of discovery…’fee title [ownership] to the lands occupied by Indians when the colonists arrived became vested in the sovereign—first the discovering European nation and later the original states and the United States.”

24. Bull Inter Caetera Pope, Spain, and Portugal Divide Latin America

25. Assignment on 8-31