Lesson 3: The Conquest of the New World

Lesson Question: How and why did the Europeans conquer the New World?

Lesson Objectives: The students will understand the nature of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the European reaction to the slaughter of Amerindian peoples.

Key Terms: Amerindian Isolation, Treaty of Tordesillas, Mappa Mundi, Conquistadors, Requerimiento, Bartolome de Las Casas, Juan de Gines Sepulveda, The Black Legend & The Noble Savage

The Spanish Discovery & Conquest of the New World

Period of Discovery 1492-1521Balboa (1513), De Leon (1513), Cordoba (1517),

Vespucci (1499-1502)Amerindian Isolation

Typhus, Measles, Influenza, Small PoxTreaty of Tordesillas 1494

Pedro Alvares CabralBrazil 1500

Ferdinand Magellan 1519-1521Spice Islands

Period of Conquest 1519 – 1540sSpanish Reconquista & ConquistadorsAztec Empire 1325-1521

Hernan Cortez 1485-1547Inca Empire 1438-1533

Francisco Pizarro 1475-1541Requerimiento

Bartolome de Las Casas 1485-1566Juan Gines de Sepulveda 1494-1573

Black Legend & The Noble Savage

Columbus’ Voyages

Spanish Explorers in the Caribbean

Treaty of Tordesillas 1494

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Mappa Mundi c. 1300

Toscanelli Map 1474

Juan de la Cosa map 1500

Diego Ribero map 1529

Lesson Key Terms:

1.Amerindian Isolation

2.Treaty of Tordesillas

3.Mappa Mundi

Iberian Reconquista 711-1492

Amerindian Empires

Indian Drawing of Spanish & Tlaxcalan Attack on Cholula

Map of Spanish Explorers in New World

Artist’s Painting of Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan

Aztec Pyramids in Mexico City

                                                            

                                                                                                                                                

Machu Pichu

Bartolome de las Casa

Lesson Key Terms:

1.Conquistadors

2.Requerimiento

3.Bartolome de Las Casas & Juan de Gines Sepulveda

4.The Black Legend &The Noble Savage