The Columbian Exchange and Its Consequences
Effects of the First Contact
Effects of the First Contact
Resolved: Columbus Day should remain a national holiday in the US
Meanwhile, back in Europe… All Heaven is Breaking Loose!
Protestant Reformation 1492 -- W. Europe = Catholic 1517 -- Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
attacked indulgences saved by faith alone “priesthood of all believers” Result conflict & civil war
Calvinism Predestination strict morality hard work
Protestantism in England Henry VIII = “defender of the faith” ....BUT wife #1 (Catherine of Aragon) can’t give him male heir Anne Boleyn Elizabeth I Henry forms Anglican Church (Protestant)
English attempts at Empire Began under Queen Elizabeth I Raleigh’s “Lost Colony”
100 colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to Roanoke Island Virginia Dare = 1st English child born in New World Colony mysteriously disappeared