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New World Beginnings

New World Beginnings. 33,000 BCE to 1769 CE. Peopling of Americas. Isolation leads to slower development Incas, Aztecs ( Mexica ), and the Mayan Maize Cultivation Animism/Spirituality Mathematics, astronomy, and trans-regional trade. Earliest Americans. Maize and Irrigation Technology

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New World Beginnings

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  1. New World Beginnings 33,000 BCE to 1769 CE

  2. Peopling of Americas • Isolation leads to slower development • Incas, Aztecs (Mexica), and the Mayan • Maize Cultivation • Animism/Spirituality • Mathematics, astronomy, and trans-regional trade

  3. Earliest Americans • Maize and Irrigation Technology • Hunting and Gathering • Cahokia • Gender Relations • Three-Sister Farming • Iroquois Confederacy

  4. Indirect discoverers of the new world • Crusades and Western Europe • Spices, silks, drugs, perfume, and sugar • Marco Polo • Indian Ocean Maritime System and Silk Road • Muslim Middlemen

  5. Europeans Enter Africa • Renaissance in Europe • Early Plantation System • Madeira, the Canaries, Sao Tome, and Principe • Portuguese • Dias 1488 • DeGama 1498 • Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

  6. Columbus:“Most successful failure in world history” • Columbus’s First Voyage • Circumnavigate the Globe – Magellan

  7. Worlds collide • Columbian Exchange • Sugar Revolution

  8. Spanish Conquistadors • Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) • Spain Dominated Exploration • Balboa • Magellan • Juan Ponce DeLeon • Coronado • Pizarro • Encomienda System

  9. Conquest of Mexico • Hernan Cortes 1519 • Malinche • Monteczuma • Small Pox • Mestizo Population

  10. Spread of SpanishAmerica • “God, Gold, and Glory” • Juan de Onate 1599 Battle of Acoma • Pope’s Rebellion 1680 • Black Legend

  11. Arrival of the English • Incentives for Colonization • Land Scarcity • Mercantilism • Religious Motivation • English Reformation • Puritan Separatists • Irish Model

  12. Arrival of the english • French and Dutch in America • New Amsterdam – French Influence • First English Settlements • Spanish Armada • Gilbert and Raleigh • Roanoke

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