European Exploration and Colonization in the Americas: Key Explorers' Profiles

1. Learning Target: We will analyze the historical points of European exploration and colonization in the Americas. Success Criteria: I will investigate the reasons for European exploration and colonization by creating facebook profiles on key explorers.

2. Start at 4:24

3. Warm-up 8/30/16 In your notebook, explain in 2-3 complete sentences, why the European countries explored the world in the 1400s-1500s.

4. European Exploration Begins!!! Europeans wanted to discover new sea trade routes from Europe to India to replace the land routes used in the past. Navigation tools were not accurate enough to enable travel across the oceans, until the late 1400s.

5. European Exploration Begins!!! In 1488 Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias sailed along the west coast of Africa, past the southern tip of the continent. His voyage indicated there might be a sea route to Asia.

6. Columbus Reaches the Americas Columbus left Spain with three small ships in August 1492. After 33 days at sea, the mariners sighted land. On October 12, 1492, Columbus came ashore on a small island in the Caribbean Sea and claimed it for Spain. Columbus had reached a part of the world previously unknown in Europe.

7. Other Spanish explorers repeated Columbus’ feat of crossing the Atlantic. In each place Spanish explorers landed, they claimed the land and all its resources for Spain.

8. Beginnings of Colonization In the 1500s Spaniards explored much of the American mainland. Spain claimed many islands in the Caribbean, most of South America, all of Central America and Mexico, and parts of what is now the United States. Although millions of people occupied these lands, the Spanish used their superior weapons to establish an empire. Soldier-explorers, called conquistadores,helped to conquer and settle these vast lands for Spain and to gain wealth and glory for themselves.

9. CORTEs In February 1519 Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés landed in what is now Mexico. Cortés and his small army conquered the powerful Aztec Empire there. They tore down the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán (teh•noch•tee•TLAHN), and plundered the city’s treasure. On the ruins, they built a new city and named it “Mexico,” after the word that the Aztec called themselves. Mexico City became the capital of New Spain, the Spanish empire in the Americas.

10. Warm-up 8/31/16 In your notebook answer the following prompt. Imagine you are native to Mexico. You see something floating on the water made out of wood and what looks like clouds. A group of silver men come out of this thing. Explain what your first reaction to these newcomers would be and what you do.

11. Facebook Pages Using the information given to you in the folder, you will complete a facebook profile page on the explorers of Alonso de Pineda and Cabeza de Vaca. To complete the profile for each figure, you will need to make sure that you have completed all required information.-Birth Date-Country of Origin-Job-Date of Death-3 Friends/Enemies-3 Significant Contributions from the reading --For each event you will need to write 2 complete sentences explaining that event’s importance. Your rendition of the Explorer/ Ship can be used as a profile pic.

12. Cabeza de Vaca Alonso Alvarez de Pineda La Salle

13. Facebook Pages Continued 9/1/16 Using the information given to you in the folder, you will complete another set of facebook profile pages. This time on the explorers of Coronado and La Salle. To complete the profile for each figure, you will need to make sure that you have completed all required information.-Birth Date-Country of Origin-Job-Date of Death-3 Friends/Enemies-3 Significant Contributions from the reading --For each event you will need to write 2 complete sentences explaining that event’s importance. Your rendition of the Explorer/ Ship can be used as a profile pic.

14. Exit Ticket 9/1/16 In your notebook on a clean left page define the following vocabulary words. You can find the words on pgs. 122-127. Conquistador- Mission- Astute- Offend- Loopholes- Lodge- Parapets- a Spanish soldier-explorer who sought personal riches and power, as well as wealth and glory for Spain. a religious settlement shrewd, crafty to attack or injure an open space in a shelter through which fighters can shoot a Native American dwelling a low wall or earthen mound at the top of a trench for protection

15. Facebook Events Cabeza De Vaca -Shipwrecked trying to find Mexico-1st Person to report about traveling across Texas-Landed Near Galveston Island Alonso De Pineda -1st Person to Map the Texas Coast-Killed by Native Americans LaSalle -Given Ships and Soldiers to colonize Mississippi River-Landed in Texas, Attacked by Native Americans-Killed by own Men