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Title: European Background


1
European Background
  • Renaissance1300-1600
  • Europeans become more worldly, have better
    technology, and demand for luxury goods increases.

2
1492
  • Columbus discovers America!
  • Reconquista is complete.

3
Conquistadors
  • Spanish fighters who explored and conquered vast
    tracts of North, Central, and South America. To
    serve God, the king and to get rich---or, God,
    gold and glory!

4
Hall of Fame (or Shame?)
  • 1513 Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
  • 1519 Hernando Cortez begins his conquest of the
    Aztecs
  • 1531 Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incas

5
Cruel and Deceitful
  • Pizarros feat was amazing---less than 200 men
    took over an empire of 6 million. But he was
    also cruel, killing the Inca after promising to
    release him for a huge ransom.

6
Spanish Disappointment
  • North America was a disappointment because of its
    lack of gold. Settlement was limited to an arch
    of missions and a few towns, such as St.
    Augustine (1565).

7
New France
  • Fish and Fur

8
Coureur De Bois
  • The woods runners successfully adopted Indian
    ways and generally lived in harmony with the
    tribes. Everyone exploited the New World, just in
    different ways.
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