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New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1783

New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1783.

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New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1783

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  1. New World Beginnings33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1783 Theme: The first discoverers of America, the ancestors of the American Indians, were small bands of hunters who crossed a temporary land bridge from Siberia and spread across both North and South America. They evolved a great variety of cultures ,which ranged from sophisticated urban civilizations in Mexico and Central and South America to the largely semi nomadic societies of North America.

  2. The First Americans • Physical Geography • Mountains create barriers • People followed food • Water features • Beringia (40,000-8000) • Ice Age (2m-10,000) • 1st Americans/Amerindians • Sedentary Civilizations • Semi-sedentary “Americans” • Pueblo Indians • Mount Builders • Eastern Indians • Clash of Cultures • Ownership, authority, religious beliefs, war, slavery

  3. II. The Amazing Race • Non-Europeans came but didn’t stay • Vikings came but left no trace! • Fish and spices in demand • Europeans colonize • nation-state competition, new technology, economics, Christianity • Portuguese Explorers • Spanish Conquistadores • Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

  4. III. Spanish Conquest • Impact of Spanish Colonization • “Columbian Exchange • Conquistadors Legacy • NO of “Black Legend” but rather empire builders • Threats to Spanish Control • Encomienda system est. slavery. • Presidios in CA and FL • English (John Cabot) • Italians (Verrazano) • French (Cartier and LaSalle) • Native Americans, (Pope’s Rebellion, 1680)

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