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