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Sign up for AP Central. Period 3 Code: XWXNP4. Period 4 Code: ADXXPN. Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe. AIM: How did European exploration impact the lives of Native Americans?. Compare and contrast Settlement of the new world. Spanish French Dutch English
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Sign up for AP Central • Period 3 • Code: XWXNP4 • Period 4 • Code: ADXXPN
Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe AIM: How did European exploration impact the lives of Native Americans?
Compare and contrast Settlement of the new world • Spanish • French • Dutch • English • Directions: Working with your partner create a chart that compares and contrasts the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonization of the “New World.” Create categories for comparison.
I. People in Motion • From Siberia 15000 years ago. • Impact of Great Ice Age 1. Extinction of large mammals 2. Rise of agriculture
Polynesian’s settle in Hawaii • Norsemen travel from Europe
II. European Overseas Expansion Policies A. China rejected any policy • Europe embraced it to compete with Islamic empire. • Portugal pioneered expansion to Asia, Africa and India: Slave trade • Spain: ultimately eclipses Portugal • Treaty of Tordesillas: 1494 divides non-Christian world b/w Spain and Portugal
“the rich ate, and ate to excess, watched by a 1000 hungry eyes as they consumed their gargantuan meals. The rest of the population starved.”
III. Reasons for Exploration • Epidemic outbreaks, famine • Religious persecution • Cost of war necessitated more gold
IV. The Encounter • A. Complex Societies in the America’s
1. The Incas in Peru, the Mayans in Central America, and the Aztecs in Mexico shaped complex civilizations: • These people built elaborate cities and carried on far-flung commerce. • They were talented mathematicians. • They offered human sacrifices to their gods.
2. The Earliest Americans • Social life was less elaborately developed. • Nation-states did not exist, except the Aztec empire. • The Mound Builders were in the Ohio River valley. • The Mississippian settlement was at Cahokia.
3. The Earliest Americans(cont.) • Three-sister farming—maize, beans, and squash—supported dense populations. • The Iroquois Confederacy developed political and organizational skills. • The natives had neither the desire nor the means to manipulate nature aggressively.
Columbus’ First Impressionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9W1G3Tn31A
C. Conquest • Repartmiento – enslaved the Indians to mines and plantations • Requerimiento – oath to Catholic Church, Pope, and Crown. • Swine Flu • Impact: Hispaniola pop. 8 million in 1496; extinct 1548
D. When Worlds Collide • Columbian exchange • Introduced Old World crops and animals to the Americas.
When Worlds Collide(cont.) 4. Introduction of horses: alters life of Indians • “Sugar Revolution: European Diet and Slave trade • Exchange of diseases: Small pox, typhus, influenza • Introduction of guns, other weapons and alcohol impact Native American society. • Intermarriage between Native Americans and Spanish and French settlers. a. English did not intermarry with Native Americans
E. Native american’s resist • Refuse to accept or adapt European ways and beliefs. • Used warfare: King Philip’s War and the Pueblo Revolt (Pope’s Rebellion) • Moved westward to avoid Europeans • Formed alliances with some Europeans to resist and wage war on other Europeans Figure 1.2 p15
Spanish Colonization • Encomienda System – regulate and control Native Americans. Crown granted colonists a set number of natives to take responsibility for. • Treatment of Native Americans • Juan de Sepulveda vs. Bartolome de Casas Spanish Mission System – intent on converting Accepted intermarriage and cross-racial sexual unions
French Colonization • Verrazano, Cartier • Slow to develop colonies • Quebec and Louisiana • Used Trade Alliances and intermarriage with American Indians
Dutch Colonization • Henry Hudson • Establish Dutch West India Company (private company) • Used trade alliances and intermarriage with American Indians
F. Results • Creation of a Global Economy based on slave labor and staple crop production. • Following 100 years of European attempt to dominate Western Hemisphere.
Summary • Genocide and the Holocaust: • Do they apply to what the Spanish did to the native people they encountered? • Was the motivation conscious greed for gold or unconscious disagreed for human life?
SAQ: Short answer question • 11 minutes • Label each answer clearly a) b) c) • 1-3 sentences each. (This is NOT an essay give short succinct answers) • Stay within the box.
Columbus believes it would work to their advantage to be kind to the Indians. • He would be appealing to the Church. He explains it would be easier to convert Indians through kindness. • The Repartmiento enslaved the Indians to mines and plantations and the Requerimiento made the Indians swear an oath to Catholic Church, Pope, and Crown or otherwise be killed.