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Converging cultures

Converging cultures. Europe encounters America: Chapter 1 Section 5. Christopher Columbus. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSJKoOaRZmE. Vikings. Norse people from Scandinavia Late 700s-1000s Explored NE north American coast Leif Ericsson– explored Labrador coast No colonies– why?.

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Converging cultures

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  1. Converging cultures Europe encounters America: Chapter 1 Section 5

  2. Christopher Columbus • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSJKoOaRZmE

  3. Vikings • Norse people from Scandinavia • Late 700s-1000s • Explored NE north American coast • Leif Ericsson– explored Labrador coast • No colonies– why?

  4. Columbus • Mid 1400s (renaissance) • Looking for sea route to Asia • Italian navigator, sent by Spain • Left Spain in August 1492 • Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria • Landed in Caribbean • Found Cuba, Hispaniola • Looking for gold • Brought back Spanish colonists

  5. Spain Claims America • Spanish explorers came in droves • By early 1500s– Caribbean explored; colonies on Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico; had begun exploring mainland • Treaty of Tordesillas

  6. Other “Spanish” Explorers • Amerigo Vespucci– 1499 • Juan Ponce de Leon– 1513 • Vasco de Balboa– 1513 • Ferdinand Magellan– 1520

  7. Columbian exchange America to Europe • Farming methods • Corn, etc. • Gum, tobacco • Potato • Canoe, snowshoe, hammock, poncho, toboggan, parka Europe to America • Wheat, oats, barley, etc. • Domestic livestock • Technology • Firearms • disease

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