Chapter 1
Early American Settlement
12,000 – 14,000 year ago
Bering Strait
Advanced Civilizations
Aztecs - Mexico
Incas - Peru
Mayans – Central America
European Contact
Leif Erickson (1000)
Newfoundland
Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator
– Lisbon observatory
– Cueta
Map 15.1: Overseas
Exploration and Conquest, c.
         1400-1600
Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator
– Lisbon observatory
– Cueta
– Bartholomew Diaz (Tip of Africa)
– Vasco da Gama (India)
– Sao Tome
Map 15.1: Overseas
Exploration and Conquest, c.
         1400-1600
Spain
Ferdinand and Isabella
Christopher Columbus
– Bahamas
Treaty of Tordisillas 1494
– Divide world at 100 degrees west between
  Portugal and Spain
Spain
Conquistadores
Ponce de Leon – Florida
Balboa – Panama and Pacific Ocean
Cortes – Aztecs of Mexico
Magellan and del Cano – First round the
world voyage
Francisco Franco
Map 15.1: Overseas
Exploration and Conquest, c.
         1400-1600
Spain
Da Vaca - Gulf of Mexico and Texas
De Soto – Carolinas to Miss. River
Coronado – Southwest (Arizona,
Colorado)
Cultural Exchanges
Europe gives – Horses, Cows, Sugar
– Smallpox, Measles
America gives –corns, beans, potatoes
– Venereal Diseases
American Holocaust
David Stannard
100 million – 1500
1 million - 1600
375,000 - 1900
Other Explorers
Henry Cabot – (Br.) New England area
Verrazano – (Fr.) East Coast
Cartier – St. Lawrence River
Map 15.1: Overseas
Exploration and Conquest, c.
         1400-1600
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
John Calvin
King Henry VIII of England
– Catherine of Aragon
– Anglican Church
The Rise of England
Elizabeth I
Captain Francis Drake
– Cloves
1587 Sir Walter Raleigh
– Roanoke Island
– Virginia Dare
1588 Spanish Armada
– Phillip II

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