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2. Chapter 1 New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.E.–1769 C.E.

3. Figure 1-1a p5

4. I. The Shaping of North America The Geography of North America – Mountains – Glaciers

5. I. The Mountains of North America

6. Rocky Mountain National Park

7. Smoky Mountain National Park

8. Glaciers caused the North American landscape to be transformed.

9. II. Peopling the Americas A land bridge connected Eurasia with North America

10. III. THE EARLIEST AMERICANS (PRE-COLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS) The Incas of Peru Mayans in Central America Aztecs in Mexico Moundbuilders in theOhio River Valley. Mississippian settlement was at Cahokia. Iroquois Confederacy in Eastern Great Lakes

11. Agricultural Based Societies Three-sister farming Maize (corn) Beans Squash Early Peruvian Art

12. Map 1-2 p9

13. IncanEmpires

16. p8 Mayan Empires

19. Aztec Empire

25. p10 Cahokia (Mississippian Culture)

29. IV. Indirect Discoverers of the New World Norse seafarers from Scandinavia (Vikings) – Newfoundland, spot called Vinland. Confirmed Polynesian Contact ?

30. Viking Exploration

32. V. Europeans Enter Africa Crusades and the ‘riches’ of the East Marco Polo travels to the East Portuguese explore Sub-Saharan Africa – Plantation system founded – Slave trade started

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34. Map 1-3 p11

35. p13 Goree Island Slave Fortress

36. p13 Door of No Return

39. VI. Columbus Comes upon a New World Christopher Columbus supported by Spanish Ships landed on an island in the Bahamas Columbus called the native peoples “Indians.” A new global economic system emerged – “The Columbian Exchange”

40. Figure 1-2 p14 VII. When Worlds Collide

43. VIII. The Spanish Conquistadores “God, gold, and glory” motivated many Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divided “New World” between Spain and Portugal

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46. Map 1-4 p16

47. Map 1-5 p17

48. IX. The Conquest of Mexico Herman Cortés goal to capture Aztec capital (Tenochtitlan) Moctezuma attacks, noche triste (sad night) Cortés and Spanish win Spanish and Indians intermarry – Create distinctive mestizos culture

49. p20 Tenochtitlan (Aztec Capital)

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53. X. The Spread of Spanish America The Spanish built forts and churches – Florida, New Mexico, California, Texas – And defended ‘their’ territory

54. Map 1-6 p21

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