NEW WORLD BEGINNINGS

Chapter One

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THE SHAPING OF NORTH AMERICA

Appalachians

Rockies

Sierra Nevada

Cascades

Coast Ranges

Canadian Shield

Tidewater Region

Mid Continental Basin

Intermountain Great

Basin

THE SHAPING OF NORTH AMERICA CONTINUED

Great Ice

Age

Lake

Bonnevilee

PEOPLING THE AMERICAS

Incans

Mayan

s

Aztecs

THE EARLIEST AMERICANS

Corn

Pueblos

Mound Builders

Anasazis

“Three-Sister”

Farming

Iroquois

INDIRECT DISCOVERERS OF THE NEW WORLD

Crusades

Marco Polo

Portuguese & the Caravel

Ferdinand and Isabella

COLUMBUS COMES UPON A NEW WORLD

Christopher Columbus

Mariner’s compass

Indies

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

Columbian Exchange• Hispaniola• Apaches, Sioux, Blackfeet tribes• “Sugar Revolution”• Seeds• Diseases

THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORES

Treaty of Tordesillas

Conquistadore

Vasco Nunez Balboa

Ferdinand Magellan

Juan Ponce de Leon

Francisco Coronado

Hernando de Soto

Francisco Pizarro

Capitalism

West Indies

Encomienda System

THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO

Hernan Cortez

Yucatan Peninsula

Malinche• Dona Marina

Tenochtitlan

Moctezuma• Quetzalcoatl

Noche Triste

Mestizo

THE SPREAD OF SPANISH AMERICA

John Cabot

Giovanni da Verrazano

Jacques Cartier

Battle of Acoma

Pope’s Rebellion

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

Father Junipero Serra

Black Legend