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The Age of Exploration
► SSH1:
The student will evaluate the development
of Native American cultures and the impact
European exploration and settlement on the
Native American cultures in Georgia
► Essential Understandings:
*Evaluate the impact of European contact on
Native American cultures
*Explain the reasons for European exploration
of North American and settlement
Georgia History 9/03/2013
SSH1: The student will evaluate the development of Native American cultures
and the impact European exploration and settlement on the Native American
cultures in Georgia
► Essential Understandings:
*Evaluate the impact of European contact on
Native American cultures
*Explain the reasons for European exploration
of North American and settlement
►
*Learning Target: Today, I will explain the purpose
and result of Hernando DeSoto’s mission through
Georgia
*COMPLETE TIME LINE 1ST
**COMPLETE IT’S YOUR TURN QUESTIONS IN YOUR
TEXT BOOK PAGES 109 AND 113 (YOU MUST WRITE
THE QUESTIONS AND UNDERLINE YOUR ANSWERS
The Age of Exploration & Discovery
►The
►Portugal:
Major Players
Navigation Experts
►Spain: Funded Columbus’ voyage
west to find Northwest Passage
►France: Sailed up the NA east
coast to Nova Scotia
►England: Fights rival Spain for
control of the New World by
colonizing North America
The Age of Discovery &
Exploration
Motives for Exploration
God
Gold
Glory
The Silk Road
The Age of Exploration
Europeans traded with Asia for centuries
► Middlemen: a trader who buys goods from
producers and sells them to other traders an
consumers
► Middlemen drove up the prices of the goods
► Europeans wanted to find new trade routes
that didn’t involve the middlemen.
► The Three major colonizers of the New
World were: France, Spain, and England
►
The Age of Exploration
Columbus believed that a new trade route
could be found by going West (Northwest
Passage). Spain sponsored his voyage
► On August 3rd 1492 the Italian Columbus set
sail on the Pinta, Nina, & Santa Maria
► On October 12, 1492 landed on a Caribbean
Island he named San Salvador/Columbus
died believing he had reached India
►
Georgia History 9/3/2013
► Finish
time/line
► Start 2nd part of vocab after timeline.
► Hook: Bubble Map/comparing contrasting
motives for Spain England motives
► Oglethorpe,, tommichi, mary, royal colony,
charter 1732, mercantism, trustee,colony
9/4 wed/9/5thurs
► PP
colonization/summary of notes
► Flyer/advertising the colony of Georgia
FIRST TO RECORD EXPOLORATION IN GEORGIA IN SEARCH
OF Gold/HERNANDO DE SOTO
The Age of Exploration
► Spain’s
two main goals for exploration were
finding gold and spreading Christianity
► Hernando de Soto left Cuba in search for
Gold and entered GA in 1540./His search for
Gold was a failure
► His men killed thousands of Indians, and
even more died from disease the explorers
brought with them/3D’S DEATH, DISEASE,
AND DESTRUCTION TO THE NATIVES
The Age of Exploration
► Missions:
Catholic outposts along the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts used to convert Indians to Christianity
► In 1566 Spaniards moved up to St. Catherine’s
Island and founded the mission Santa Catalina
► The first city settled in the New World was St.
Augustine – Spanish Florida
► St. Marys, St. Catherines, & Ossabaw were all
missions a part of the Spanish province Guale
► Mocama was another Spanish province that had
several missions
The Age of Exploration
► The
race for the New World heated up
between England and Spain
► Spain’s success in finding gold made it very
rich and powerful.
► Spain’s rise to power caused tension
between England and Spain and led to an
undeclared war between the two
► England and their strong navy came out on
top and beat the Spanish Armada
England Settles the New World
► Jamestown
was the first permanent settlement in
the New World
► Many problems plagued this colony: disease,
harsh weather, location
► They found that tobacco grew very well in this
area and were able to trade it.
► Hugenots were French Protestants that explored
the eastern coast of North America
► Indentured Servants agreed to work for someone
for a set period of time in return for passage to
the New World
► Slave: Had few rights and spent the entire lives in
service to others
England Settles the New World
► Colonists
came to the New World for,
religious freedom, spreading Christianity,
escape persecution.
► Primary reason for settlement was economic
gain
► Wanted to establish a system of
mercantilism – a nation exports more than it
imports
► Mercantilism: colonies would ship raw
materials to England. Englishmen would
make goods and sell them to other nations.
England Settles the New World
► England
sets up more colonies in New England
and Carolina
► This creates more conflict between Spain and
England.
► England sets up Fort King George on the
Altamaha river to protect them from France
and Spain
► In 1721 the garrison (a fort where troops are
housed) was finished
► European nations were able to spread
Christianity, gained riches, found new raw
goods and materials