1. Age of
Exploration
Are we there yet?

2. Henry the Navigator

3. Ferdinand and Isabella
Funded exploration to replace Italian
monopoly on spices from East Indes

4. Columbus finds West Indes instead

5. Ponce de Leon finds Florida

6. Vasco de Balboa discovers the Pacific
And sets his dogs on homosexuals Settled town in Panama

7. Coronado finds Arizona, New Mexico and
into Kansas!

8. De Soto discovers the Mississippi River

10. Killed in the Pacific during the journey

11. Hernan Cortez and the Aztecs

12. Conversion of locals

13. Torture of leaders

14. Their island city
• was
besieged
and
destroyed
by the
Spanish in
1521

15. • Their
armies
defeated
and most of
their people
killed by
starvation
and disease

16. Pizarro does the same to the Inca

17. Just 10 years later

18. Life for the locals
• Not officially enslaved, but used as low-paid labor in the
Encomienda system.
• Worked on haciendas, or Spanish plantations and factories.
• Converted by force.
• Killed off by disease in large numbers.

19. Bartolome de las Casas
Moved from Spain to Cuba
when 18 and saw horrors of
encomienda system.
Spoke out against
treatment of locals as a
priest.

20. African slaves
In 1452, Pope Nicholas V
authorized human slavery
of pagans
Paul III disagreed in 1537 but was ignored

21. • The first African slaves to Spanish America
arrived in 1501, but only after royal laws
protecting native Americans in 1512 were
put into place were large numbers of
Africans imported.
• Had an immunity to European diseases that
had devastated the local workers.

22. Horrible conditions
Packed in during shipping in
unsanitary conditions.
Basically treated as a
commodity with a profit
margin that allowed for
some “shrinkage” during
transit.

23. Banned in early 1800’s