The Age of Exploration

1. The Age of Exploration • The discovery of America was an accident! • This accident led to the “Age of Exploration”

2. Warm Up: • 1) What does colonize mean? • 2)What is a friar?

3. Trade with the Indies • European countries wanted spices, perfumes, jewels, and other goods from India, China, and Japan. • The Europeans called these countries “The Indies.” • To trade with the Indies, traders had to go overland or sail around the tip of Africa.

4. Columbus • The overland route and the sea route were long and dangerous. • Christopher Columbus convinced the king and queen of Spain that he could reach the Indies by sailing west from Europe. • They had no idea another continent existed!

6. A New World • On October 12, 1492, Columbus landed on the Caribbean island of San Salvador. • Thinking he had reached the Indies, Columbus called the natives Indians. • Columbus never admitted that he had not found a new route to the Indies instead of a whole new world!

8. The New World • This New World provided wealth to the Spanish. • Gold, silver, copper, and jewels were found in what is today Mexico and South America. • The Spanish conquered these lands and people and claimed all its wealth.

9. Isla Florida • Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. • The city of St. Augustine was settled in 1565. It is the oldest city in the United States.

11. Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon • Ayllon led the earliest attemptto settle what is now Georgia. • It was unsuccessful because he died in the first few weeks of settlement. Disease, cold weather, and starvation destroyed the settlement.

12. 1540 - De Soto Brings Death • Hernando De Soto was the first European to explore Georgia. • In search of gold, he and his men brought death to the natives in the forms of guns and diseases. • The natives did not have immunity against European diseases such as smallpox. • De Soto himself found death after discovering the Mississippi River. He was killed in a battle with Native Americans. http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/story/hernando_de_soto

13. 2nd and 3rd

14. Glory, Gold, and God • The Spanish had three reason for settling in the Americas: • Glory – power for their nation • Gold – wealth for themselves and their nation. • God – bring the Catholic religion to the Natives.

15. SIR:AS I know you will be rejoiced at the glorious success that our Lord has given me in my voyage, I write this to tell you how in thirty-three days I sailed to the Indies with the fleet that the illustrious King and Queen, our Sovereigns, gave me, where I discovered a great many islands, inhabited by numberless people; and of all I have taken possession for their Highnesses by proclamation and display of the Royal Standard without opposition. To the first island I discovered I gave the name of San Salvador, in commemoration of His Divine Majesty, who has wonderfully granted all this. The Indians call it Guanaham. The second I named the Island of Santa Maria de Concepcion; the third, Fernandina; the fourth, Isabella; the fifth, Juana; and thus to each one I gave a new name. When I came to Juana, I followed the coast of that isle toward the west, and found it so extensive that I thought it might be the mainland, the province of Cathay; and as I found no towns nor villages on the sea-coast, except a few small settlements, where it was impossible to speak to the people, because they fled at once,

16. Spanish Missions • To spread the word of God to the Indians, the Spanish established Catholic missions along the barrier islands. • Missions had another purpose – to prepare for settlement of colonists from Spain.

17. Spanish Missions on the Barrier Islands

18. Guale and Mocama • The Spanish divided the coast of what is now Georgia into two mission areas: Guale in the north and Mocama in the south. • Missions were built on the barrier islands. • See map page 68.

19. Powerful European Countries and Enemies • Great Britain and France also wanted land in the New World. • Great Britain was a Protestant nation. • France was a Catholic nation. • Spain was a Catholic nation.

20. Requirements for Claiming Land • There were three requirements a nation had to meet to claim land in the New World: • Explore • Occupy • Control

21. France in the New World • The French claimed land from Canada, down the Mississippi River Valley which they called Louisiana. • The French also attempted to colonize north of St. Augustine which angered the Spanish. • The French called this Fort Caroline.