I. The Shaping of North America.
• All of the world’s dry land was one immense continent and finally broke off into seven • North America was created with The Canadian Shield being the first portion to determine • About 2 million old ages ago. most of the land was covered in ice during the Ice Age • 10. 000 old ages ago runing of Ice – lakes.

II. Peopling the Americas.
• Ice Age caused sea degree to drop making a land span that connected North America with Eurasia conveying Asiatic huntsmans to America • Land span covered by H2O after ice age – no more in-migration for a piece • Temperature that ended ice age opened up vales to Native American peoples • Incas. Mayans. and Aztecs were a few of the many different Native American folks in being • Aztecs.

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III. The Earliest Americans.
• Corn farming spread all over America from Mexico.
• No “societies” .
• After maize seting reached Cahokia. a big group of about 25. 000 lived there – foremost millennium C. E. • Three- sister agriculture was the cultivation of corn. squash. and beans – Creek. Choctaw. and Cherokee tribes • Women took attention of harvests ; Men hunted and fished.

IV. Indirect Discoverers of the New World
• Marco Polo traveled to China
• Christian reformers. in neglecting to take the Holy Land from the Muslims. wanted goods from Asia • Muslim jobbers charged much for good transit

V. Europeans Enter Africa
• Pressure to spread out Europe
• Along with the caravel. going methods were improved • Arabs. Africans. and Lusitanian – Plantation system – slave trade in Africa • Bartholomeu Dias went midway down the seashore of Africa but Vasco de Gama reached India – spices and gems • Spaniards wanted to crush rival Portuguese in detecting the wealths of the Indies ( India ) .

VI. Columbus Comes Upon a New World.
• Traveling west. Columbus and his crew spotted land next to the Bahamas • While Columbus was looking for a way to the Indies. he by chance discovered America on October 12. 1492 • Sing Columbus thought he was in India. he named the Native Americans “Indians” .

VII. When Worlds Collide
• The Columbian Exchange was the connexion of the universe and the technically new land when Columbus discovered America • Many new workss and animate beings were discovered in the Americas • Columbus brought back with him to Hispaniola hogs. cattles. Equus caballuss. and sugar cane • Europeans besides carried diseases from the new lands such as malaria. variola. and xanthous febrility doing big epidemics and many deceases.

VIII. The Spanish Conquistadores.
• Spain used the Treaty of Tordesillas to guarantee their shared ownership of the new land with Portugal • 1500s – Spanish Conquistadores – dominant adventurers • The inventor of the Pacific Ocean. Vasco Nunez Balboa. said all lands washed by that sea belonged to his king • Ferdinand Magellan took a journey in 1519 from Spain. was killed in the Philippines but his ship made it back in 1522 being the first to go around the Earth • Encomienda allowed the authorities to give Indians to settlers that will Christianize them.

IX. The Conquest of Mexico.
• 1519 – Hernan Cortes set canvas for Mexico.
• Saved a Spanish outcast and picked up and Indian female slave • Looking for gold and wealth. afraid of retreat. fire all his ships •
Aztec captain Moctezuma believed Cortes was a legendary God and allowed him to the capital Tenochtitlan ( finally destroyed to do Christian cathedrals ) • June 30. 1520. Noche triste. the Aztecs attacked Cortes and his crew • Disease and onslaught caused tonss of decease.

• Exogamy with lasting Indians – ladino.

Ten. The Spread of Spanish America.
• The Spanish wanted to change over Indians to Christianity • The Battle of Acoma – 1599 – claimed New Mexico with capital Santa Fe • Pope’s Rebellion – 1680 – Indian rebellion.
• Pueblos destroyed every Catholic church.
• The Black Legend – conquerers tortured Indians for their gold and wealth.