Outline New World Beginnings

The Ice Age formed a land bridge in the area of present-day Boring Sea, which allowed nomadic groups of multitude to enter the Americas. B. conclave of Nomads 1. Traveled across the Boring Land Bridge and populated the Americas 2. give away into countless tribes and evolved into over 2,000 languages a. Incas- Peru b. Mayans- Central America c. Aztec- Mexico Ill. The Earliest Americans A. Pueblo Indians 1. Constructed Intricate Irrigation systems to piddle their cornfields. 2. Lived In adobes and pueblos. B. Mound Builders 1. Lived at Iacocca, near present-day East SST. Louis. 2.Built an reckon pueblo of more than six hundred interconnected rooms at rig Canyon. C. Eastern Indians 1. Developed the three-sister farming where the beans grew on the trellis of the cornstalks and the squash screening the planting mounds to retain moisture in the soil. 2. Among them were the Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee. D. Iroquois Confederacy 1. Created by the legendary leader, Hiawatha. 2. Develop ed political and organizational skills to sustain a robust phalanx alliance that menaced its neighbors. IV. Indirect Discoveries of the New World A. Blonde bearded Scandinavian from Scandinavia reaches magnetic north America. . The Vikings landed around 1,000 C. E. 2. They landed at a identify near Leans auk Meadows in present-day Newfoundland. . They in short abandoned the place and their discoveries were soon forgotten. B. Christian Crusaders rank high among Americas indirect discoveries. 1 . Tens of thousands fought to regain bear of the Holy Land from Muslim control. 2. Foiled in their assaults, the Crusaders craved the delights of Asia. V. Europeans interpose Africa A. Marco Polo applys to Europe in 1295 from China. B. Slave trade begins 1. Arab merchants and Africans had traded slaves before the Europeans arrived. . Millions were wrenched from their home unstained after the discovery of the Americas. C. In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Aids move the A. Columbus persuaded the Spanish monarchs to outfit him with three tiny but seaworthy ships. B. By heading westward, he thought he would reach the Indies. 1. after(prenominal) six weeks at sea, he thought he reached the Indies when it was the Americas and mistaken the people there as Indians. C. Columbus discovery led too international economic system. 1. Europe would provide the markets, capital, and the technology. 2. Africa would provide the labor. 3.New World would provide the stinging materials. VI. When Worlds Collide A. The Old World and the New World traded things also cognize as the Columbian Exchange. B. The New World gave the Old World 1. Corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, and so on 2. Gold, silver, and syphilis(SST). C. The Old World gave the New World 1. Wheat, sugar cane, rice, coffee, horse, cows, pigs, etc. 2. Smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, etc. A. Have any immunity in their bodies. B. Thus, around 90% of Native American s died. VIII. The Spanish Conquistadores The Indians didnt A.Portugal and Spain argued over who got what land and the argument was settled wrought the Treaty of Tortillas. 1. Portugal received territories in Africa, Asia, and Brazil. 2. Spain received territories in the Americas. B. Spanish conquistadores strike out out across the Caribbean. 1. Vases Nuns Balboa- discovered the Pacific Ocean. 2. Ferdinand Magellan- His vessel circumnavigated across the globe. 3. Juan Pence De Leon- Explored Florida sounding for the Fountain of Youth. 4. Francisco Coronado- Discovered the Grand Canyon and enormous herds of buffalos. 5. Hernandez De Sotto- Discovered the manuscript River. 6.Francisco Pizzeria- Crushed the Incas of Peru. C. Encomia system established. . It allowed the government to command Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try to Christianize them. 2. Bartholomew De Alas Cases, appalled by the encomia system, called it A moral pestilence invented by Satan. X. The Conquest of Mexico 1. Montague thought Herman Cortes was the god, Quadruplicate, returning from the east sea. 2. Herman Cortes was welcomed into the empire and took advantage by conquering it. 3. A new consort of people called messiest is formed, which have a mix of Latin Americans European and Indian blood. 4.The Spaniards greed for gold led Montague to attack the Spanish on quoin tries (sad night). X. The Spread of Spanish America 1. Within about half a century of Columbus landfall, Spanish cities flourished in the Americas. 2. Other countries wanted their packet of the new lands. A. The English sent Giovanni Cabot to explore the northeastern coast of North America. B. The French sent Giovanni dad Overgraze to probe the eastern seaboard. C. Lawrence River. 3. The Pueblo Indians started an uprising called the Popes anarchy against the Spanish in 1680. 4. The misdeeds of the Spanish in the New World gave suffer to the Black Legend.