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DISCOVERY OF A NEW WORLD. Who were the first humans on the continent, how did they get here and why did they come? How did geography and climate affect Indian culture? What level of technology did most tribes develop?. Pre-Columbian time period. First Americans came from Asia - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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1. Who were the first humans on the continent, how did they get here and why did they come?
1. How did geography and climate affect Indian culture?
1. What level of technology did most tribes develop?
•Pre-Columbian time period.
•First Americans came from
Asia
•Supposedly crossed the
Bering Strait during the Ice
Age
•Following a food source
•Gradual migration
Hunting & Gathering society.
Pueblo – Great Basin Indians.
Iroquois – Longhouse typical of E. WoodlandsIndians.
Mesa Verde – Great Basin (desert of NM) Navajo had to develop “dry farming” techniques. The environment greatly affected each Indian tribe.
Cahokia: Mississippian Mound BuildersCirca 900-1100 AD
Archeological finds, supported by oral traditions of show North American Indians could have been very complex.
Columbus “discovers” a “New World.”
October, 1492
NEW WORLD
OLD WORLD
New Maritime New Maritime TechnologiesTechnologiesNew Maritime New Maritime TechnologiesTechnologies
Hartman Astrolabe
(1532)
Better Maps [Portulan]
Sextant
Mariner’s Compass
New Weapons New Weapons TechnologyTechnology
New Weapons New Weapons TechnologyTechnology
* Squash * Avocado * Peppers * Sweet Potatoes* Turkey * Pumpkin * Tobacco * Quinine* Cocoa * Pineapple * Cassava * POTATO* Peanut * Tomato * Vanilla * MAIZE * Syphillis
* Olive * Coffee Beans * Banana * Rice* Onion * Turnip * Honeybee * Barley* Grape * Peach * Sugar Cane * Oats* Citrus Fruits * Pear * Wheat * HORSE* Cattle * Sheep * Pig * Smallpox* Flu * Typhus * Measles * Malaria* Diptheria * Whooping Cough
Columbian ExchangeColumbian Exchange or the transfer of goods involved 3 continents, Americas, Europe and Africa
Spanish empire by the 1600’s
consisted of Southern part of
North America Central America
Caribbean Islands Most of outer South America
Father Bartolomé de Las Father Bartolomé de Las CasasCasas
Father Bartolomé de Las Father Bartolomé de Las CasasCasas
► New Laws --> 1542
•Believed Native Americans had been treated harshly by the Spanish.
•Indians could be educated and converted to Christianized.
•Believed Indian culture was advanced as European but in different ways.
Between 1492 – 1592 the Indian population was reduced by 90%.
The Spanish Colonial Caste The Spanish Colonial Caste SystemSystem
The Spanish Colonial Caste The Spanish Colonial Caste SystemSystem
PeninsularesPeninsularesSpanish Spanish
ancestoryancestory
PeninsularesPeninsularesSpanish Spanish
ancestoryancestoryCreolesCreolesSpanish Spanish
and Black and Black mixture.mixture.
CreolesCreolesSpanish Spanish
and Black and Black mixture.mixture.
MestizosMestizosSpanish Spanish
and and Indian Indian
mixturemixture
MestizosMestizosSpanish Spanish
and and Indian Indian
mixturemixture
MulattosMulattosWhite White
American American and Black and Black mixturemixture
MulattosMulattosWhite White
American American and Black and Black mixturemixture
Native IndiansNative IndiansNative IndiansNative Indians Black SlavesBlack SlavesBlack SlavesBlack Slaves
This is the Spanish practice of securing an adequate and cheap labor supply
• Very similar to European feudalism2. Conquistador controlled Indian populations
•Required Indians to pay tribute from their lands•Indians often rendered personal services as well.
3. In return the conquistador was obligated to•protect his wards•instruct them in the Christian faith•defend their right to use the to live off the land
4. Encomienda system eventually decimated Indian population. 5. The King prevented the encomienda with the New Laws (1542) supported by de Las Casas, the system gradually died out.
Indian Resistance to Spanish
Pueblo Indians (NM) revolt against Spanish rule in 1680 known as Pope’s Rebellion.
The “New World” questions
(PEO) Did Columbus discover a “New World?”
(CUL) Did Columbus create a “New World?”
(WOR) What was the Columbian Exchange?
(WXT) How did the Spanish conquer such a
huge area of land populated by millions?