I am a person who likes I am a person who can I am a person who has I am a person who hates
Who am I?
description
Transcript of Who am I?
![Page 1: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Who am I?
![Page 2: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Who am I?
![Page 3: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
![Page 4: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Christopher Columbus• August 3, 1492 – Columbus and
three ships sail from Spain• Born in Italy and sailed for Spain• Purpose: Sail to Asia (India) by
going west across the Atlantic instead of around Africa (Portuguese)
![Page 5: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Chris’s View of the World
What’s the problem with his view?
![Page 6: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Was Columbus the First?• NO!!!!• The Chinese?• The Vikings?• The Phoenicians?
• Now back to Columbus...
![Page 7: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Why Explore?• Motives (Reasons) for Exploration =
GOLD, GLORY, GOD• Gold = more land; new markets
(people to buy goods); money $$$$• Glory = power for exploring nation • God = spread Christianity to new
lands
![Page 8: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
More Columbus• Set off to find a quicker route to the West
Indies.• Crew was near mutiny when land was
sighted.• Landed near present day Bahamas
(thought it was the West Indies• Indigenous people called themselves the
Taino (“noble ones”). He called them something else…
• Los Indios…..translation Indians….WHY????• Thus began the move from the Old
World (Europe) to the New World (Americas)
![Page 9: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Where did they Settle?• built settlements in the
Caribbean, South America and Central America
• settled in North America (present day United States)
• settled in present-day Canada • were brought to work on large
plantations in the Caribbean and Southern English colonies
Spanish –
English –
French –Africans –
![Page 10: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Comparing Three WorldsAmerican Indians Europeans West Africans
What were their religious beliefs?
Nature-basedSpiritual relationship between man and Earth
Christianity Everyone should be Christian
Islam (in some areas)Nature-based (in other places)
What was their government?
tribes (simple) confederations empires (complex)
nations and kingsbeginning to have ideas about individual rights
Kingdoms w/ rulersCouncil of elders
What were their economic systems?
Communal ownership of landLive in harmony with land -- use it to sustain life and not to create wealth
Private ownership of propertyLabor + land = wealth
Communal ownership of landExtensive trade in a variety of goods
What kind of technology did they have?
Bows, arrows, spears and tomahawksSimple farming and hunting tools
Advanced weaponry, including guns, cannons and armorNavigational abilities
Depending on area – simple farming tools or complex trading equipment
![Page 11: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Impact of Discovery• Colonization – The establishment
of distant settlements controlled by parent country.
• Often times natives were forced into work on plantations
• Europeans brought many new diseases with them to the New World…..
![Page 12: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Disease is BAD!• Population decrease
estimates between 1/3 and 1/2 of native population.
• Decrease in population means decrease in workforce.
• What will the Europeans do???
![Page 13: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Slave Trade Begins• With so many Natives dying of
disease, Europeans turned to the slave trade to replenish labor force.
• Africans were more resistant to Old World disease and less familiar with New World (less likely to escape).
• Europeans began using these slaves in the New World.
![Page 14: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
The Columbian Exchange
• An exchange of living things between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (North America)
![Page 15: Who am I?](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062323/568162aa550346895dd32c85/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Spanish
FrenchEnglish