The Discovery of the

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The Discovery of the New World

• APUSH Unit 1 (Chps 1-4)
• SSUSH1 The student will describe European
  settlement in North America during the 17th
  century.
• SSUSH2 The student will trace the ways that the
  economy and society of British North America
  developed.

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APUSH Take Five

• The questwhy did Europeans seek a new World
  or did they?

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The Earliest Inhabitants

• Paleo-Indians
• Land bridge (25,000-11,000 years ago)
• Bering Straits
• Lifestyles (14,000 years ago)
• Hunters and gatherers
• Mound builders, cliff dwellers, etc
• Farmers
• Craftsmen

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The Bering Straits
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The Agricultural Revolution

• Shift from food gathering to food producing
• Led to changes in society (500 AD)
• Hunter/gatherers (nomadic) to?
• Semi-nomadic farmers to?
• Subsistence farming to?
• Organized farming w/ specialized jobs to?
• CIVILIZATION!

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The Earliest Inhabitants move to Meso-America
South America

• Early writings cultural developments
• Solar calendars pok-a-tok
• City-States
• Role of religion in society
• Human sacrifices
• Mayans
• Aztecs
• Incas

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Mayan ruins
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Solar Calendar
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Mayan Artwork
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Pok a tok arena
Pok a tok hoop
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The Aztecs
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Aztec Empire
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Incas in the Andes Mtn. of S.A.
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Machu Picchu
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First Encounters

• The Vikings
• Eric the Red Leif Eriksson

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The Vikings
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Viking travels
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Erik the Red
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First Europeans Arrive

• Early Explorers
• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Christopher Columbus (1492)
• Ferdinand Magellan
• The Inter Caetera (1493)
• The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
• Expanding into the new world
• Hernan Cortes
• The Conquistadores
• Hernando De Sotomakes his way to North America

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Prince Henry
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Ferdinand Magellan
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The world according to Herodotus Greek Historian
400s BC
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Christopher Columbus
Columbus was a Ginger!!
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Answerthe quest

• After the crusades, in which Europeans went to
  the far east to Christianize the infidels,
  Europeans came into contact with the riches of
  the far east for the first time
• Europeans were not seeking a new world, they
  were looking for a shorter route to the far east
• Cathay China
• Cipangu Japan
• Andthey wanted to cut out the hated Italian
  middle man who was becoming very rich off of
  other European countries

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Europeans the Early Conquerors

• Spain
• Encomiendas
• The Conquistadores
• Aztecs fallrenamed Mexico City
• Rape, pillage, plunder (Montezumas revenge)
• Spanish Armada
• The 3 Gs
• God, Glory, Gold Greed

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Take Five

• What does the Columbian Exchange refer to?
• What is the MOST important ramification of
  European interaction with the New World?

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The Columbian Exchange

• What was the impact of Europeans on the new
  world?
• Disease
• Political and economic domination
• Horses and livestock
• Food products

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The Columbian Exchange

• What was the impact of the Indians on Europe?
• Food products
• Disease
• Gold