1. The “New World” 1491-1607 Mr. Owens
Crash Course #1: "The Black Legened: Native Americans and the Spaniards"

2. Essential Questions:
In what ways and to what extent did the native populations of North America adapt to and transform their diverse environments?
Compare and contrast the Spanish, French, Dutch, and British social and political development of their colonies, including their relationships with native populations.
What were the effects of the Columbian Exchange on the New World, Europe, and Africa?

3. Cultures of Central & South America
Archeologists believe first migrants arrived 40,000 years ago from Asia via Bering land bridge
Advanced civilizations: Maya (AD ) in Yucatan Peninsula, Aztecs “Mexica” in central Mexico – Tenochtitlan pop. of 200,000, Incas in Peruvian Andes
Highly organized, trade routes, calendars, and agricultural systems

4. Cultures of North America
Population of N. America (U.S. & Canada) in 1490s historians est. between 1 to 10 million or higher
Mostly small societies of 300 people or less – hunting (men) & gathering, & farming (female), many matriarchal, and were animists
Language: diverse more than 20 language families and 400 languages – largest Algonquin in Northeast
Southwest: Spread of maize cultivation from Mexico, Pueblo – farming, cliff caves, brick buildings
Northwest & California: hunting & gathering, fishing
Great Plains & Great Basin: nomadic, tepees, buffalo hunters – horse from Spanish in 1600s
East: woodland – hunting & gathering, fishing, farming permanent settlements – fur trade. Iroquois Confederacy in Mohawk Valley of NY most powerful

5. Causes of European Exploration
Technology improvements: gunpowder (China), sailing compass (China via Arabs), shipbuilding - caravel, mapmaking, Guttenberg’s printing press.
Religion: Spreading of Catholic faith (Spain & Portugal) after conquest of Spain by Protestant Reformation (England & Holland) -spreading rival versions of Christianity
Expanding trade routes to Asia & development of slave trade for labor – mercantilism/merchant capitalism
Development of nation-states that relied on trade and the church

6. Early Exploration & Contact
Columbus 1492 (Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain) arrived in Bahamas the “Indies”
Columbus controversial legacy?
Columbian Exchange: transfer of plants, animals, and germs/diseases. From America: beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco & syphilis. From Europeans: sugarcane, pigs, horses, wheels, iron tools, guns & variety of diseases smallpox, measles.
Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 Spain & Portugal divide New World
Spanish conquistadores – search for gold “requerimiento” – Cortes, Coronado
Encomienda system: land grants & natives to influential Spaniards – caste system
Asiento system: slave trade from W. Africa taxes supported monarch

7. English, French & Dutch
Both England & France behind Spain occupied by European wars & internal religious conflict
England: John Cabot explores Newfoundland Queen Elizabeth I in 1580s Sir Francis Drake raids Spanish ships, Sir Walter Raleigh failed colony of Roanoke in Jamestown in 1607
France: Jacques Cartier ( ) explored St. Lawrence river (Canada), Samuel de Champlain “Father of New France” founds Quebec in 1608 settlements extend down Mississippi River down to Louisiana by 1682 –coureurs de bois, Jesuit Missionaries
Dutch: Henry Hudson in 1609 “Hudson River” establish “New Netherlands” and “New Amsterdam” trade of Dutch West India Company (joint-stock company), large land grants to patroons

8. Spanish Settlements in N. America
Florida: St. Augustine founded 1565 oldest permanent European settlement
New Mexico: Santa Fe 1610, imposing Christianity led to Pueblo Revolt led by Pope in 1680 controlled until 1693
Forced Spanish to compromise
Texas: small settlements – grow in early 1700s
California: San Diego 1769, San Francisco 1776, Mission system set up by 1784 Father Junipero Sera

9. European Treatment of Native Americans
Clashing views of nature & land: collectivism & animism vs. culture of capitalism
Spain: rigid caste “casta” system. Bartolome de Las Casas critical of treatment led to “New Laws of 1542” end Native American slavery. Valladolid Debate: Las Casas vs. Juan Gines de Sepulveda
England: initial coexistence and trade in certain areas but eventual warfare & expulsion of “savages” – some “praying towns” – “transplantations”
French: coexistence – fur trade (coureus de bois), intermarriage, alliances with Huron & Algonquin– Jesuit missionaries.
Dutch developed trade alliances especially with the Iroquois – fur trade.
Native American reaction: some tribes opened trade networks, some formed alliances with Europeans against other tribes, some resisted or migrated west away from Europeans