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New World Beginnings
Chapter 1
American Pageant (13th ed.)
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Oh, Pangaea!
You supercontinent, you...
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Land, ahoy!
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Land bridge connected
Asia to North America
(thank you, Ice Age)
 People migrated all the
way to South America
 Notables include:
– Incas
– Mayans
– Aztecs
 Native American
cultures emerged in
North America
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Europeans discover the New
World
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Vikings in 1000 AD
(Newfoundland)
 Crusades occur in
Europe & Asia;
curiosity ignited
 Portugal leads the way
in exploration &
exploitation
 The slave trade begins
in 1450s & flourishes
due to sugar…yep,
sugar!
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And, then
Spain enters
the picture…
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Spanish Conquistadores

Christopher Columbus:
a successful failure?
 The Columbian
Exchange
 Treaty of Tordesillas
(1494)
 Kept Spain & Portugal
friendly
– Portugal & Spain
divided the New World
– North-South line,
chopped off Brazil and
Portugal got land east,
including parts of Africa
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Spanish Conquistadores
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Balboa: discovered
Pacific through isthmus
of Panama
Magellan: 1st to
circumnavigate the
globe (kind of…)
De Leon: Discovered
Florida; Fountain of
Youth
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De Soto: Discovered
Mississippi River
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Pizarro: Conquers
Incas and takes Peru
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Coronado: Found
Pueblo Indians looking
for El Dorado (city of
gold)
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Spanish Conquistadores
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Conquistadors transformed the world
economy
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Encomienda established
– Indians given to colonists in return for
Christianization of population
– Basically glorified slavery disguised as religious
work
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Conquest of Mexico

Hernando Cortes
conquers Aztecs
 Aztec King Montezuma
at first welcomed
Cortes as god
Quetzalcoatl
 Smallpox took out
Aztecs
 Mexico’s future set
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Spanish America

Spanish forts set up to
protect their
“investment”
 St. Augustine, Florida
(oldest continually
inhabited European
settlement)
 Don Juan de Onate
conquered New Mexico
at the Battle of Acoma
(1599)
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Pueblos revolted
against Spanish rule in
1680
– Pope’s Rebellion saw
Pueblos burn every
Catholic Church and kill
settlers
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Spanish eventually
reclaimed New Mexico
in 1700s
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