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Chapter 4 The Atlantic World

Chapter 4 The Atlantic World. Coach Campbell. The Voyages of Columbus Sailed August 3, 1492 on 3 ship The Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria Landed October 12, 1492 on present day islands of the Bahamas. Section 1 Spain Builds An American Empire. Believed he landed in the East indies

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Chapter 4 The Atlantic World

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  1. Chapter 4The Atlantic World Coach Campbell

  2. The Voyages of Columbus • Sailed August 3, 1492 on 3 ship • The Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria • Landed October 12, 1492 on present day islands of the Bahamas Section 1Spain Builds An American Empire

  3. Believed he landed in the East indies • Called the inhabitants “Indians” • Claimed this land for Spain and names it San Salvador First Encounters

  4. Pedro Alvares Cabral- Claimed Brazil for Portugal (1500) • Amerigo Vespucci-discovered Columbus’ voyage wasn’t part of Asia, but a New World • Ferdinand Megellan-Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the world (1519) • Vasco de Balboa- Spaniard, 1st European to see Pacific Ocean Other Explores Take the Sea

  5. Explorers

  6. Hernando Cortes (1519)- landed in Mexico • He and the Conquistadors who followed were lured by the promise of treasure • Spanish were the 1st Europeans to settle in Americas Spanish Conquest in Mexico

  7. Cortes and his men, Conquistadors, reached the Aztec • Montezuma, Aztec, emperor, thought Cortes was a god. • Montezuma gave half the empire’s wealth… Cortes wanted it all Cortes Conquers the Aztecs

  8. 1520- Aztecs rebelled against the Spanish • Cortes defeated Aztecs • 1. Better weapons 2. European Diseases killed many Natives • Smallpox's, mumps 3. Spanish convinced enemies of Aztecs to fight against them

  9. Aztecs

  10. Pizarro Subdues the Inca • Pizarro, Conquistador, defeated Incan Empire • Spanish kidnapped Atahualpa, seized the ransom for him, and killed him Spanish Conquest of Peru

  11. Spain began to enforce their culture on the Natives • Spanish forced the Natives to work within an Encomiendo system where they were forced into labor. Spain’s pattern of Conquest

  12. Pedro Cabral claimed land for Portugal in present day Brazil • Built plantations and grew sugar cane= great profits for Portugal  The Portuguese I Brazil

  13. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explored land in present day Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas Conquistador’s Push North

  14. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

  15. Bartolome de Las Casas spoke out against the use of Natives as slaves and pushed for the enslavement of Africans (he later denounced this) • Native American resistance became more prominent as Spanish influence grew. African Slavery and Native Resistance

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