The Age of Exploration began in 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain funded Christopher Columbus' expedition west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of wealth and trade routes to Asia. Columbus made landfall in the Bahamas and encountered the native Arawak and Taino people, though relations soon turned violent. Subsequent Spanish conquistadors like Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro conquered the Aztec and Incan empires, introducing European diseases, the encomienda system of forced labor, Catholicism, and ultimately devastating the indigenous populations. Other conquistadors like Coronado explored North America in search of the fabled cities of gold.

1. The Age of Exploration
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2. Strand #1
Standard #3
Age of exploration
I can explain the effect of European
contact on the Western Hemisphere

3. Bell-Ringer 9/16
Pick up the two different pages
from the crates by the door.
Get out your maps from your
folders and start finishing up.

4. The Age of Exploration
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5. Ferdinand
Isabella
Spain in 1492

6. Bell-Ringer 9/17
These are the three LearningTargets you will
be tested on:
1. I can compare and contrast the cultures of Meso and North
America with each other and Western Europe.
2. I can identify the causes of the Age of Exploration.
3. I can explain the effects of European contact on the Western
Hemisphere.
Please tell me how comfortable you are with each
of the LearningTargets on notebook paper.

7. Spain in 1492
Reconquista of Granada
Traded with the East
(but not like Portugal)
Mercantilism and mission

8. Christopher
Columbus

13. Mercantilism: control
the world’s wealth
before someone else

14. The Nina
Pinta and
Santa
Maria

15. Landedin the
Bahamas and
encountered the
Arawak and Tainos
Relationship went
from peaceful to
violent quickly

16. Froma1599editionofTheDestructionoftheIndies withengravingsbyTheodoredeBry

17. Whatever
happenedto
Columbus?
Returned to Spain
in Chains & Died in
1506 bitter, poor,
disappointed, and
unappreciated

19. Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the new World to Keep Peace

20. HidalgosFormerSpanishSoldiersthat
floodedtheCaribbean

22. Encomienda system

23. N
Loss of Native Population
on Hispaniola due to Spanish Disease
1 Million
22,000

24. African Slaves
replaced Natives
on sugar plantations

25. Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Mulattos
Native Americans

26. Conquistadores
Conquerors

27. Gold
God
Glory
G’s

28. Veracruz1519A.D.
Cortes

31. Full iron armor
Steel swords
Guns
Cannon
Horses
600 men
Leather, cloth, wood
Obsidian weaponry
Obsidian weaponry
Obsidian weaponry
Foot soldiers
Potential for thousands

32. Biological
Warfare

34. Bell-Ringer 9/18
There are four different stacks of paper on
the white shelf against the back wall. Pick up
one from each stack. Also, pick up your
folder from the crate and take it back to your
seat.
1st, 3rd, 5th, and 6th hours: take out notes

35. Peru 1531-32A.D.
Pizarro

39. results of the Spanish conquest
Decimation of the Native Population: Nearly Wiped out on
Hispaniola, Mesoamerica contained over 40 million natives but
droppedto 3 million in 150 years
Introduction of European diseases
Creation of the Council of the Indies, which issued laws
and decrees to Spanish-born officials in the Americas
Introduction of Indian slavery with the encomienda
system and, later, African slavery
Destruction of native cultural identity: indigenous cities and
shrines destroyed, outlawed native religion, forcedCatholicism,
and created A social system based on race

40. conquistadores
in north
America

41. Cibola

43. Landed in Florida in
1539
searched for Cibola
travelled along the
Mississippi and into
southern Missouri
Explored New Mexico
Searched for Cibola
Reached the Grand
Canyon and Kansas
before returning to
Mexico

44. A Catholic Indian is
a peaceful Indian