Collision of Two Worlds pt 2

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THE COLLISION OF TWO WORLDS

Instructor Carol Jean Cox

THE COLLISION OF TWO OLD WORLDS
Discovery of the New World Europe In Transition The First Americans Exploration Conquest or Invasion Genocide

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Origins Food Shelter Skills Technology Religion Geographic Regions

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Origins Asian nomads from Mongolia
Blood DNA similarities of North American Asians Evolution of teeth structures

Archeological Sites
Radio carbon dating of stone tools Yukon blue fish caves Pennsylvania Meadow craft 16000 bp Clovis Period 13 000 12800 bp Monteverde Chile 13000 bp Pedraferata Brazil 48 000 bp

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Diversity Isolation Isolation caused a diversity of cultures languages 15 million inhabitants Two million today 1 2000 languages in all of the Americas
600 languages in North America

Video In Search of the First Americans

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Called Indians by Columbus Geographic error Label of all peoples as one Food Shelter hunter gatherers nomadic sedentary
Teepees caves

Farming irrigation sedentary
wood homes adobe Fermented wines beers

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Skills Technology Primitive tools skills Reed grass baskets Bows arrows harpoons Hunting related skills running stalking 200 drugs medicines

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Writing system Olmecs Mayans Carved records in stone on cactus fiber most destroyed in 1500 s by Spanish Architecture Mayans built over 40 cities in Meso America Populations up to 20 000 each Olmec Mayan Inca Azec cultures Pyramids temples aqueducts

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Skills Technology
Tools skills Medicines Writing Architecture

Religion
Animistic worship of spirits in the natural environment gods demanding human blood sacrifices Some peaceful some warlike

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Geographic Regions Coastal pacific Western Tribes Coastal habitation Totem poles landmarks of stories Descendants of animals man Redwood homes dug out canoes Inland forests Sub Arctic Movement by the water Birch houses canoes cooking utensils Caribou elk otter mink beaver maple sap

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Geographic Regions Eastern Woodlands Matrilineal heritage Women choose tribal chiefs Gender Specialized tasks Women grew beans corns Children keep birds away men hunter warriors Men hunter warriors Shells pearls birch houses

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Geographic Regions Plains Indians Nomadic Teepees as moveable homes Grasses for baskets hides for clothing homes blankets Hunter Gatherers Buffalo the main stay of their diet After the arrival of the Europeans horses were used for hunting and transporting

THE FIRST AMERICANS
Origins Food Shelter Skills Technology Religion Geographic Regions

THE COLLISION OF TWO OLD WORLDS
Discovery of the New World Europe In Transition The First Americans Exploration Conquest or Invasion Genocide

THE COLLISION OF TWO OLD WORLDS
Exploration Conquest

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
The First Explorers Eskimos Aleuts Native Americans Japanese Chinese Fishermen West Africans Olmec Legend European Vikings Thorfinn Karlsefni mapped part of North American coast Tried to settle Newfoundland

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
The European Explorers 15 16th centuries Portugal the African Coast Route
Prince Henry the Navigator
30 voyages along the African Coast

Bartholomeu Dias Cape Good Hope 1488 Vasco De Gama Calicut India 1498 Pedro Cabal East South America 1500 The Brazilian Mistake Colonies in West Africa the Persian Gulf Macao and Brazil

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
The European Explorers 15 16th centuries Spain Colonization of the Americas Columbus and the route west 1492
An Italian sailing for Spain Isabella invested 14 000 Plan to reach Indies by sailing west Japan only 2 500 west of Canary Islands Four trips to Americas Died believing he had landed in Asia

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
The European Explorers 15 16th centuries Spain Colonization of the Americas
Columbus the route west 1492 Vasco Nunez de Balboa Panama 1513 Ponce de Leon Florida 1513 Ferdinand Magellan World 1519 1522 Hernando De Soto southeast interior 1539 1542 Coronado southwest Cortez Aztec city of Tenochtitlan 1519 Pizarro Incas of South America

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
The European Explorers 15 16th centuries English Colonies of the East Coast of North America India S E Asia E Asia Coast Oceania the Middle East
THE BRITISH EMPIRE

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
The European Explorers of the 15 16th centuries Dutch Colonization of the East Indies Indonesia and southern Pacific New Zealand
Abel Tasman

France Colonization in North America St Lawrence Seaway New Orleans Russia Exploration of the Pacific North West
Sitka Fur Trapping Bodega Bay Fort Ross

English Colonies of the East Coast of North America India S E Asia E Asia Coast Oceania the Middle East

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
Motivational Factors for European Exploration 1 Improvement of quality of life Precious stones metals silks crafts spices drugs Marco Polo and Crusaders introduced Europeans to new lifestyles and created demand for goods from the East

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
Motivational Factors European Exploration in the Americas 2 Establishment of new trade routes and national claims of territories Existing routes were expensive and dangerous due to pirates wars Monopolized by Italian merchants who functioned as middlemen in trade between Europe Asia

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
Motivational Factors European Exploration in the Americas 3 Spread Christianity 4 Control Profit New Territories mean greater wealth Bypassing middlemen would bring greater wealth to a country and to the discoverer of a new route to the East

EXPLORATION CONQUEST
Motivational Factors for 15th 16th century European Exploration

Spread Christianity Establishment of trade routes and national claims to land
Sea routes through Indian Oceans Persian Gulf Overland routes through Middle Est Levant to Asia

THE COLLISION OF TWO OLD WORLDS
Discovery of the New World Europe In Transition The First Americans Exploration Conquest or Invasion Genocide

THE COLLISION OF TWO WORLDS

Instructor Carol Jean Cox