new world exploration

NEW WORLD EXPLORATIONThe conquering of free people

The Spanish

Conquistadors are soldiers under the command of the Spanish King.

Their quest is to conquer land in the name of Spain and add wealth and glory to the Spanish Kingdom.

The Three goals of Spanish exploration are Gold, Glory, and God.

The Meaning of the Three G’s Gold= Find wealth Glory= conquer new land for SPAIN. God= convert all natives to

Christianity, Catholic Christians

Cortez

Cortez was a military man. He assembled an invasion force He left Cuba with his men to discover

the main land source of gold that had been found in Cuba

He discovers the Aztecs upon arrival in what is now Mexico

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Death and Destruction

Cortez did not wish to become friends

He had come to conquer He made his way to Tenochtitlan, the

Aztec capital. There he kidnapped the king

Montezuma. He used his few men to hold off

5,ooo aztec warriors in an epic battle.

The Aztec were conquered

What happened next?

Cortez sets up a colony with himself as governor.

He starts shipping Aztec gold and silver back to Spain

He destroys the Aztec temples and replaces them with Catholic churches.

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Francisco Pizarro

After the defeat of the Aztecs, Francisco Pizarro marches to South America to conquer the great Incan Empire.

He captures the King at Cuzco and has him put to death. He establishes a colony for Spain and builds a city called Lima.

Conquest of the Inca

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Pizarro

Magellan

The World Is Round!

By the time Magellan took a fleet of ships on a trip around the world, most people accepted that the world was round and that Columbus was wrong. Columbus never found Asia.

Although Magellan did not survive his journey, his voyage proved that the world’s oceans are connected, the world was round, and that Columbus was wrong.

The other Spaniards

Other Spanish explorers set off to explore the North American continent

De Soto, Coronado, and Ponce de Leon, explored what today is the southern United States.

Francisco Balboa discovered the Panama Isthmus and the Pacific Ocean

What about the English?

Henry Hudson looks for a North West Passage. That is a northern route around the Americas to Asia. He never found it. He did find the Hudson bay.

John Cabot explores the East Coast of North America

Other English

Sir Francis Drake is hired by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe like Magellan.

So What?

What were the results of Exploration? 1. Technology spread through

Cultural Diffusion. 2. The Slave Trade begins across

the Atlantic 3. European nations like Spain

and England become Empires and native civilizations die

4. The world is proven to be much larger than previously thought