IF YOU MISSED THIS CLASS, YOU NEED TO:

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1. FIRST AMERICANS
IF YOU MISSED THIS CLASS, YOU NEED TO
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1)  DO THE DQ FOR THE DAY. (Create your
vocabulary card). 3) COPY THE NOTES 4) COMPLETE
THE EXPLORATION MAP 5) READ THE COLUMBUS STORY
AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.

• ON THE BOARD
• DC (do cards)
• STEREOTYPES
• 3. FIRST AMERICAN NOTES
• 4. MAP/COLUMBUS READING

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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old
World. -CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Daily Comment Card
1492
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
-Italian who sailed for Spain -Nina, Pinta, Santa
Maria -Sailed west to find water route to the
East -Returned with Gold encouraging more
exploration
-Pope divided world with Line of
Demarcation -Half to Spain/Half to Portugal -Line
moved to give Brazil to Portugal
SONGS FOR THE DAY NEVER BEEN TO SPAIN

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Daily Comment Card
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old
World. -CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
1492
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
-Italian who sailed for Spain -Nina, Pinta, Santa
Maria -Sailed west to find water route to the
East -Returned with Gold encouraging more
exploration
SONGS FOR THE DAY NEVER BEEN TO SPAIN

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Daily Comment Card
1493-4
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old
World. -CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
-Pope divided world with Line of
Demarcation -Half to Spain/Half to Portugal -Line
moved to give Brazil to Portugal
SONGS FOR THE DAY COME SAIL AWAY
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STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO
-identify Christopher Columbus Treaty of
Tordesillas explain the arrival of the first
Americans. -describe the cultures encountered by
the first European visitors. -analyze reasons for
the European shift in interest toward
colonization. -illustrate the Columbian
Exchange -identify major Spanish explorers and
their claims for Spain -Evaluate the Spanish
legacy in the New World
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Group 1
Group 2
In your group, discuss physical characteristics
and stereotypes of Native Americans. Have one
person make a list
In your group, discuss physical characteristics
and stereotypes of Asians. Have one person make a
list
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Dark hair, long straight Dark eyes Skin pigment
(tone) Very little body hair Warrior
culture Spiritual Connection to environment
When you compared the lists did you find any
similarities? Where there any possible
connections?
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How did the first Americans get here?
-Bering Strait (land bridge) -Nomadic Asian
hunters -by 1492, 54 million
in American continents
Major cultures INCAS (PERU) MAYANS (CENTRAL
AMERICA) AZTECS (MEXICO)
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• CENTRAL AMERICASOPHISTICATED CIVILIZATION
• MATH
• ASTRONOMY
• AGRICULTURE
• CALENDAR
• HOWEVER, PRACTICED HUMAN SACRIFICE

• IN NORTH AMERICA
• 3 SISTER FARMING
• (beans, squash, corn)
• SMALL, SCATTERED, IMPERMANENT SETTLEMENTS
  AGRICULTURE

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• BLAME ATTENTION ON THE CRUSADES
• RENEWED INTEREST IN TRADE
• SILK
• DRUGS
• PERFUME,SOAP
• DYES
• SUGAR AND OTHER SPICES

MARCO POLO CHINA
WANT AN ALL WATER ROUTE TO INDIA FOR TRADE
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• PORTUGUESE ARE THE FIRST TO LEAD!
• PRINCE HENRY
• COAST OF AFRICA (SLAVES)
• DIAZ, DA GAMA

• WHAT MADE IT POSSIBLE
• BETTER SHIPS (CARAVEL, RUDDER)
• EQUIPMENT (ASTROLABE, COMPASS)
• MOVEABLE TYPE
• WEAPONS,

Dont forget from trade!
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Other countries want in
SPAIN COLUMBUS
-FERDINAND ISABELLA -MOORS DRIVEN OUT -1492 SET
SAIL (NINA, PINTA, SANTA MARIA) AFTER SIX WEEKS
(OCT 12) BAHAMAS FOLLOWED BY JAMAICA
PUERTO RICO TRINIDAD
HONDURAS -DIES THINKING HE LANDED IN WEST INDIES
(1506)
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COLUMBUS USED THE CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN TO TRAVEL
TO THE WEST AND RETURN
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NEW WORLD
OLD WORLD
BEANS TOMATOES POTATO TOBACCO CORN
PINEAPPLES VANILLA CHOCOLATE
WHEAT SUGAR RICE COFFEE HORSES COWS PIGS
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
SMALLPOX MEASLES BUBONIC PLAGUE INfLUENZA TYPHUS D
IPTHERIA SCARLET FEVER
SYPHILIS
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CLASH OF CULTURES BEGINS EUROPE MARKETS,
CAPITAL, TECHNOLOGY AFRICA LABOR NEW WORLD
RAW MATERIALS
OLD WORLD TAKES GOLD SILVER AFRICA PROVIDES THE
SLAVE LABOR
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To keep order, the Pope divided the New World
between the 2 most powerful Catholic countries
Spain Portugal
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS Spain most of the
heathen lands Portugal Africa, Asia, (with
line of demarcation, Brazil)
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SPANISH EXPLORERS
Balboa- Panama Magellan- circu
mnavigated globe (1519-1522) Ponce de
Leon- Florida (fountain of youth) Coronado- 7
cities of Cibola (Grand Canyon) DeSoto- Mississip
pi Pizarro- Incas (Peru-1532) Cabeza de
Vaca- Texas Cortes- Aztecs
Spanish colonies only trade with Spain, only
Catholics can migrate.
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CORTES conquers Aztecs in Mexico under
Monteczuma (thought he was returned God)
Quetzalcoatl Tenochtitlan capitol city Cortes
burned his shipsWHY? Help from Spanish enslaved
by Mayans and an Indian slave, Malinche
(female), who spoke Mayan and one Aztec
language-learned Spanish. Baptized Dona
Marina Brought death, conquest, intermarriage
(mestizos), crops, animals
Malinchistatraitor
Columbus DayDia de la Raza
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SPANISH LEGACY?

• LANGUAGE
• RELIGION
• ARCHITECTURE
• one story, adobe/stone, arched doors. court
  yards, high ceilings, tile roofs domed
  churches, rectangular bell tower
• FOOD ANIMALS
• oranges, lemons, olives, sugar cane, wheat,
  rice cows, pigs, horses, donkeys
• EDUCATION
• universities (Lima, Peru Mexico City-1550s)

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Bering Strait
St. Augustine, Florida (1565) is oldest
continually inhabited European settlement in what
is now the U.S. Encomienda (grants land and
indians in return for promise of
Christianization) system was used.
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