Questions?

� What is history?

� Can history change?

� How do you learn history?

What makes something( a piece of writing or an � What makes something( a piece of writing or an artifact) a good piece of information about the past?

� What role does bias play in recording, learning, and understanding history?

Who discovered the America’s?� Hunters crossed land bridge from Siberia

Variety of cultures evolved—sophisticated urban civilizations in Mexico, Central and South America

Semi nomadic societies in North AmericaSemi nomadic societies in North America

Why did Europeans start exploring?� Demand for Eastern luxuries

� Portuguese moved around the coast of Africa

� Spanish headed west

Bünting clover leaf map. A woodcut made in 1581 in

Magdeburg. Jerusalem is in the center, surrounded by

Europe, Asia and Africa

What is wrong with this idea?

Explorers and conquistadors

Collision of the Worlds

� What were some of the effects of the “collision” of the Atlantic societies—Europe, Africa, and the Americas?

� Disease

� Conquest� Conquest

� Slavery

� Intermarriage

� Population loss

� Cultural Change

� Economic expansion

Collision of the worlds

� New world to the old world

Gold, silver

Corn, potatoes, beans pineapples, tobacco, Vanilla, chocolate

� Old world to the new world

Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee

Horses, cows, ,pigs

Smallpox, measles, bubonic

plague, typhus, diphtheria, Vanilla, chocolate

syphilis

plague, typhus, diphtheria, scarlet fever

slaves

Specifically, Predict what effect will this exchange have on the

new and old world?

Example: how will the new world be affected by the introduction

of horses, cows and pigs?

Vasco Nunez BalboaIn 1513, Balboa walked into

the Pacific off the coast of

Panama and claimed all

the land washed by the sea the land washed by the sea

for Spain.

In 1517, Balboa was charged

with treason. Balboa was

arrested and executed by being

beheaded.

Ferdinand MagellanFerdinand Magellan (a Portuguese sailing for Spain left in

1519 with five ships and about 270 men to sail around the

world

Magellan was killed in the Philippines and Juan Sabastian

del Cano took command

1522, del Cano returned to Spain with one ship and 18

men The ship brought enough spices back to make a

profit

Ponce de Leon—1513 –St. Augustine

Castillo de San Marco built 1672

De Leon was killed by an Indian arrow in 1521

Francisco Pizarro-1532

� Pizzarro with an army of 200 men and 65 horses invited the Inca leader Atahualpu to meet. (A. thought P.was a semi-god) The Conquistadors captured Atahualpu and ordered two rooms filled with gold and silver to release him.

� The Conquistadors got the gold and silver, killed Atahualpa, and took over Peru.Atahualpa, and took over Peru.

$$$ flooded into Spain, leads to capitalism and inflation---WHY???

Pizarro is killed by his men in a dispute over the riches

questions� Why was the new world able to dominate the old

world?

----Consider the strengths and weaknesses of the new and old worldand old world