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Ch. 3 Exploration and Colonization. Exploration. Christopher Columbus’ voyages inspired Europeans. They saw the potential for settling and gaining riches from the newly discovered lands. Exploration. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Ch. 3 Exploration and Colonization
Exploration
• Christopher Columbus’ voyages inspired Europeans. They saw the potential for settling and gaining riches from the newly discovered lands.
Exploration
• Magellan circumnavigated the globe, sailing from the Atlantic Ocean, rounding the tip of South America and into the Pacific Ocean
Exploration
• Magellan established the route to Asia that Columbus attempted to find• New information
led to more accurate maps
Exploration
• Spanish explorers in the borderlands were largely unsuccessful because they met strong Native American resistance
Colonization
• Most European rulers supported established churches in the 1500s
• European states persecuted people who did not follow the established religion
Colonization
• Religious differences during the Protestant Reformation increased rivalries between nations
• Rulers encouraged rivalries between settlers for goods and land
New Spain
Order of society, from most influential to least, was:1. Peninsulares2. Creoles3. Mestizos4. Native Americans
New Spain
Spanish conquistadors defeated the Aztecs primarily because a large number of Aztecs died from European diseases
New Spain
The Incas lost their empire to the Spanish due to infighting over control of their own government
New Spain
Three kinds of settlements were established:1. Pueblos2. Presidios: forts where soldiers lived3. Missions
New Spain
Bartolome de las Casas attempted to help Native Americans by asking the King of Spain to enact laws prohibiting their enslavement
New Spain
• Plantation: large estate farmed by many workers
• Encomienda: land grant from the Spanish government to settlers
English Settle America• The Mayflower
Compact established laws for the general good
• Native Americans helped the Pilgrims survive early hardships
• Squanto taught colonists about native food
English Settle America
KEY TERMS• Charter: legal
document giving certain rights to a person or company
• Precedent: example for people to follow in the future
English Settle America
• Jamestown faced many challenges, including disease and conflicts with Native Americans
• Jamestown Colony needed additional laborers from England
English Settle America
Virginia’s population changed after 1619 when women and Africans arrived in greater numbers
English Settle America
Virginia’s House of Burgesses began a tradition of representative government in the English colonies
Columbian Exchange
• Exchange of goods and ideas from Europe to the Americas and from the Americas to Europe
• Examples: horses, tomatoes, pumpkins, peanuts, smallpox, how to grow and prepare native plants
Good Luck on Your Test!