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Chapter 1
New World Beginnings
Focus Questions:
1.Political and Religious reasons behind exploration of
the New World by European countries.
2. The affect of settlement on existing Native
American tribes and the resulting tensions
Early discoveries of the NW
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Scandinavian discoveries 1,000 AD
failed due to:
1. No strong nation state pushing to expand
2. Settlements were not strong =
abandoned
3. Voyages forgotten
Growth of European Powers
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Growth of UNIFIED countries
Competing for power
Conquest and trade = $$$
Would cause exploration towards Asia,
into Africa and the discovery of the New
World
The Crusaders
• From 11th to 14th Century's crusaders
warriors traveled East to the Holy Land to
regain it from Muslim control
• Acquired taste for new and exotic goods.
• Problem????? = a need for less expensive
routes to the East
Advances in Travel
• 1450 Portuguese
developed the caravel
ship
• Could sail with the
wind better
• Opened up Africa to
the Portuguese
• Set up plantation
economy in the NW
Advances in Routes
• Bartholomeu Dias
• Rounded the
southern tip of Africa
Vasco da Gama
• Founded route to “India”
Unification of Spain
• Late 1400’s Spain becomes unified
• Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and
Isabella of Castile
• Expulsion of the Muslim Moores
• Spain focuses on expansion
• Portugal controlled gateway to Africa and
India so Spain looked Westward.
The New World
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Age of Renaissance
Christopher
Columbus
• NW = a new global
economic system
1. Europe = Markets
for goods
2. Africa = labor
3. NW = raw materials
Colliding Worlds
NEW WORLD
• Horses, cows, pigs
• Small pox
• Yellow fever
• Malaria
• plague
• 90% of naïve Indians
wiped out by disease
OLD WORLD
• Tobacco
• Sugar
• Beans
• Syphilis (std)
• Sweet potatoes
In the name of Religion and Glory
• Conquistadors
• Juan Ponce de Leon- fountain of youthfound Florida and an Indians bow
• Encomienda system (aka SLAVERY) =
governments gave colonist control over
naives in order to “Christianize” them
• Mission system(1769)
• “Malinchista”
Political Conflict
• Treaty of Tordesillas 1494- divided land of
the New World between Spain and
Portugal
• Spain received the larger portion