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1. The Shaping of northbound America 1. Recorded history began 6,000 years past. It was 500 years ago that Europeans serve foot on the Americas to begin the era of accurately save history on the continent. 2. The supposition of Pangaea exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into integrity mega-continent. The continents and consequently spread out as drifting is wreaks. 3. Geologic forces of Continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. 4. The Great Ice climb on thrust checkmate everyplace jointure America and scoured the present day American Midwest. 2. Peopling the Americas 1.The Land bridgework theory 1. As the Great Ice Age diminished, so did the glaciers oer North America. 2. The theory holds that a Land connect emerged linking Asia & North America crossways whats today the Bering Sea. plenty were said to hold back walked across the bridge before the sea level rose and sealed it sour and so populated the Americas. 2. The Land Bridge is suggested as occurring an estimated 35,000 years ago. 3. M whatever peoples emerged 1. Those groups that traversed the land bridge spread across North, Central, and South America. 2. Countless tribes emerged with an estimated 2,000 languages.Notably 1. Incas Peru, with elaborate network of roads and bridges linking their empire. 2. Mayas Yucatan Peninsula, with their bar pyramids. 3. Aztecs Mexico, with step pyramids and huge sacrifices of conquered peoples. 3. The Earliest Americans 1. Developwork forcet of corn or lemon white-livered around 5,000 B. C. in Mexico was revolutionary in that 1. Then, people didnt have to be hunter-gatherers, they could settle down and be farmers. 2. This fact gave rise to towns and then cities. 3. Corn arrived in the present day U. S. around 1,200 B. C. 2. Pueblo Indians 1.The Pueblos were the 1st American corn growers. 2. They lived in adobe houses (dried mud) and pueblos (villages in Spanish). Pueblos are villages of cubi cle wrought adobe houses, stacked one on pop off the other and oft beneath cliffs. 3. They had elaborate irrigation systems to draw water away from rivers to grown corn. 3. cumulus cloud Builders 1. These people built huge ceremonial and burial mounds and were located in the Ohio Valley. 2. Cahokia, near East St. Louis today, held 40,000 people. 4. Eastern Indians 1. Eastern Indians grew corn, beans, and squash in triple sister farming 1.Corn grew in a stalk providing a train for beans, beans grew up the stalk, squashs broad leaves kept the sun off the ground and thus kept the moisture in the soil. 2. This group possible had the best (most diverse) diet of all North American Indians and is typified by the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw (South) and Iroquois (North). 5. Iroquois federation 1. Hiawatha was the legendary leader of the group. 2. The Iroquois Confederation was a group of 5 tribes in crude York state. 3. They were matri filiational as authority and possessions passed do wn through the female line. 4.Each tribe kept their independence, but met occasionally to discuss matters of common interest, manage war/defense. 5. This was not the norm. Usually, Indians were scattered and separated (and thus weak). 6. Native Americans had a very different view of things as compared to Europeans. 1. Native Americans felt no man owned the land, the tribe died. (Europeans liked private property) 2. Indians felt character was mixed with many spirits. (Europeans were Christian and monotheistic) 3. Indians felt nature was sacred. (Europeans believed nature and land was given to man by God in Genesis to be subdued and put to use). . Indians had little or no concept or interest in money. (Europeans loved money or gold) 4. Indirect Discoerers of the New serviceman1. The 1st Europeans to come to America were the Norse (Vikings from Norway). 1. Around 1,000 A. D. , the Vikings landed, led by Erik the Red and Leif Erikson. 2. They landed in New put inland or Vinland (due to all of the vines). 3. However, these men leftfield America and left no written record and therefore didnt get the credit. 4. The only record is found in Viking sagas or songs. 2. The Christian Crusaders of Middle Ages fought in Palestine to regain the Holy Land from Muslims.This mix of East and West created a sweet-tooth where Europeans wanted the spices of the exotic East. 5. Europeans Enter Africa This meat copyright 2010 by WikiNotes. wikidot. com 1. Marco Polo traveled to China and stirred up a storm of European interest. 2. Mixed with desire for spices, an East to West (Asia to Europe) job flourished but had to be overland, at l eastern hemisphere in part. This initiated new exploration down around Africa in hopes of an easier (all water) route.3. Portugal literally started a sailing shoal to find better ways to get to the Spice Islands, eventually travel Africas southern Cape of Good Hope. . New developments emerged 1. caravel a embark with triangular sail that cou ld better tack (zig-zag) ahead into the wind and thus return to Europe from the Africa coast. 2. compass to determine direction. 3. astrolabe a sextant gizmo that could signalize a ships latitude. 5. Slave trade begins 1. Slavery was ab initio race-independent. A slave was whoever lost in battle. Usually, slaves came from the Slavic regions of Europe, hence the name. 2. The original African slave trade was across the Sahara Desert. 3. Later, it was along the West African coast.Slave traders purposely busted up tribes and families in order to squelch any possible uprising. 4. Slaves wound up on sugar plantations the Portuguese had set up on the tropical islands off of Africas coast. 5. Spain watched Portugals victory with exploration and slaving with envy and wanted a piece of the pie. 6. Columbus Comes upon a New World 1. Columbus convinced Isabella and Ferdinand to fund his expedition. 2. His goal was to chance upon the East (East Indies) by sailing west, thus bypassing the around-Africa route that Portugal monopolized. 3.He misjudged the size of the reason though, thinking it 1/3 the size of what it was. 4. So, later 30 days or so at sea, when he struck land, he untrue hed made it to the East Indies and therefore mistook the people as Indians. 5. This spawned the following system 1. Europe would provide the market, capital, technology. 2. Africa would provide the labor. 3. The New World would provide the raw materials of gold, soil, and lumber.7. When Worlds Collide 1. Of huge importance was the biological tack of Old and New Worlds. Simply put, it was a trade of life such as plants, foods, animals, germs. . From the New World (America) to the Old 1. corn, potatoes, tobacco, beans, peppers, manioc, pumpkin, squash, tomato, wild rice, etc. 2. also, lues venerea 3. From Old World to the New 1. cows, pigs, horses, wheat, sugar cane, apples, cabbage, citrus, carrots, Kentucky bluegrass, etc. 2. devastating diseases smallpox, yellow fever, malaria as Indians had no immunities. 1. The Indians had no immunities in their systems built up over generations. 2. An estimated 90% of all pre-Columbus Indians died, mostly due to disease. 8. The Spanish Conquistadores 1.Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 Portugal and Spain feuded over who got what land. The pope drew this line as he was respected by both. 1. The line ran North-South, and chopped off the Brazilian coast of South America 2. Portugal got everything east of the line (Brazil and land around/under Africa) 3. Spain got everything west of the line (which turned out to be much more, though they didnt know it at the time) 2. Conquistadores is Spanish conquerors. 1. Vasco Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean across the isthmus of Panama.2. Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the universe (he was the first to do so). . Ponce de Leon touches and names Florida looking for legendary beginning of Youth. 4. Hernando Cortes enters Florida, travels up into present day Southeastern U. S. , dies and is buried in disseminated sclerosis River, 5. Francisco Pizarro conquers Incan Empire of Peru and begins shipping tons of gold/ silver back to Spain. This huge influx of precious metals made European prices go up (inflation). 6. Francisco Coronado ventured into current Southwest U. S. looking for legendary Cibola, city of gold. He found the Pueblo Indians. 3. Encomienda system established 1.Indians were commended or given to Spanish landlords 2. The idealistic theory of the encomienda was that Indians would work on the farm and be converted to Christianity. But it was fundamentally just slavery on a sugar plantation guised as missionary work. 9. The Conquest of Mexico 1. Hernando Cortez conquered the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan. 2. Cortez went from Cuba to present day Vera Cruz, then marched over mountains to the Aztec capital. 3. Montezuma, the Aztec king, thought Cortez might be the god Quetzalcoatl who was due to re-appear that very year. Montezuma welcomed Cortez into Te nochtitlan. . The Spanish lust for gold led Montezuma to attack on the noche triste, sad night. Cortez and men fought their way out, but it was smallpox that eventually beat the Indians. 5. The Spanish then destroyed Tenochtitlan, building the Spanish capital (Mexico City) exactly on top of the Aztec city. 6. A new race of people emerged, mestizos, a mix of Spanish and Indian blood. 10. The Spread of Spanish America 1. Spanish society cursorily spread through Peru and Mexico 2. A threat came from neighbors 1. English John Cabot (an Italian who sailed for England) touched the coast of the current U.S. 2. Italy Giovanni de Verrazano also touched on the North American seaboard. 3. France Jacques Cartier went into mouth of St. Lawrence River (Canada). 3. To oppose this, Spain set up forts (presidios) all over the California coast. Also cities, like St. Augustine in Florid 4. Don Juan de Onate followed Coronados old path into present day New Mexico. He conquered the Indians ruthlessl y, maiming them by cutting off one foot of survivors just so theyd remember. 5. Despite mission efforts, the Pueblo Indians revolted in Popes Rebellion. 6.Robert de LaSalle sailed down the Mississippi River for France claiming the whole region for their King Louis and naming the area Louisiana after his king. This started a slew of place-names for that area, from LaSalle, Illinois to Louisville and then on down to New siege of Orleans (the American counter of Joan of Arcs famous victory at Orleans). 7. Black Legend The Black Legend was the notion that Spaniards only brought faulty things (murder, disease, slavery) though true, they also brought good things such as law systems, architecture, Christianity, language, and civilization, so that the Black Legend is partly, but not entirely, accurate.