Warm-up need books!!!!

List 5 dangers with exploration and trade.

Terms

Conquistadors

Understand the impact of Columbus

explorations.

Look at settlement from Aztec and Inca

point of view.

Today’s Goal You will be able to…

Explain the reasons for, and effects of,

Spanish and

Portuguese

exploration in the

New World

Voyages of ColumbusGoal = sea route to India

San Salvador in Caribbean

los indios (Indians)

Colonies

Discoveries of Other ExplorersAmerigo Vespucci

- Declared S. America was Mundus Novus or “New World”

- Americas named after him

Waldseemuller’s Map – labeled S. America after Amerigo

1518 – Vasco Núñez Balboa went through Panama & became first to see the Pacific Ocean

1519 – Ferdinand Magellan his crew was first to sail around the world

Spanish ConquistadorsHernando Cortes

Aztecs (Montezuma)

Francisco Pizarro

Inca (Atahualpa)Why was Cortes able to

conquer the Aztecs?

• Misconceptions

• Superior weapons (gun)

• Support from rival tribes

(who despised

Aztecs)

• Disease!!!

•Conquistadors-

Conquerors

How is this showing Bias?

How did they see things differently?

You are Aztecs or Incas. Journal entry on

your thoughts on European exploration in

your lands.

How did Spain rule the natives in the

New World?

Unify under

Christianity

Encomienda system

demand tribute and

labor

How did success in exploration &

conquest affect Spain?

Golden Age in arts &

culture

Bigger navy

Columbus Journal

Read from it

Internet or books to find other primary sources,

such as Columbus Letters

2 paragraph news report on the voyage.

Who is profiting from the voyage?

Impact it was having as his story spread.

Include quotations.