CHAPTER 1

New World Beginnings:

Some Key Points from Notes

Appalachian Mountains were made around 10 million years ago

54 million people were in North and South America (2 continents)
Early people had come by BOAT or by FOOT from Asian with the Bering Isthmus
for 250+ centuries
Natives developed their own Nation-States & Political Organizations

Shows own development of Organization

Women held authority in Native American Societies
Sailors refused to sail across due to the known at-sea conditions
Slave trade = BIG BUSINESS

origin of slave trade is due to the increase of more agriculture, which leads
to

the need of more labor (more specifically tobacco in the South)

Global Economic system revolves around Atlantic

Between the East Coast, the West Indies were Europe and Africa
This shows that how INVOLVED the colonies in the New World were
Spain held the dominant power, due to its exploration achievements

Magellan completes first circumnavigation (1522)

LARGE thirst for gold, eventually outed by Natives

their arrival affects the
Natives population
Not only through illness, but the forcing of labor or doing certain actions
which led to death for many
Spanish flourished in modern-day Peru and Mexico

had first university in 1551

With wealth, the churches had arrived; this eventually leads to suppression of
Native customs Black Legend- the bad deed performed, killing Natives in honor
or rather for Christ
After Popes Rebellion (Native [Pueblo] Uprising), New Mexico was reclaimed by
the Spanish even with their ruins
The Columbian Exchange is extremely significant in what was being traded
MAIN IDEAS:

creation of global empires Euro-motivation = competition, E.Asian goods, religion

introduction of cattle and horses North American natives are semi-inactive (in terms of
contact with the Europeans)
technology is assisting and helpful in exploration large
civilizations in MesoAmerica and South America
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New World Beginnings:

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Geographical Evidence:

Pangea

ONE giant land mass (Proof: soil and

specimen from S. America and Africa

Ice Age

DRAMATIC effect for migration patterns

N.America's Evidence: 1) Lake Bonneville (Great Salt Lake),

2) Rocky Mountains 3) Appalachians [BONUS! Great Plains,
due to it's flat, and plateau-ness]
Native Interactions:

French: traded with, Spanish: enslaved by, British: killed by

from Asia, due to Bering Strait, land bridge
held tribal wars, were NOT unified

Yucatan: Mayans >> Step Pyramids

Mexico: Aztecs >> Step Pyramids & Human Sacrifices
Peru: Incas >> Had Road Networks
3 Sister Farming leads to permanent settlements,
matrilineal and more equal gender roles
> corns/maize (main staple) >> beans >> squash
Natives didn't click with the English:

property (tribal vs. indiv.)

matrilineal vs. patriarchal

European Impact in the New World:

England - removed & killed off Native population, brought

yellow fever and smallpox; motives were "GOD, GOLD,
GLORY". New! desires from crusading and new development
leading to our modern state.
France - converted Natives to Catholicism and fur traded with
them.
Spain - takes California, TOT divides the world into 2
hemispheres (West is Spanish and East is Portugal [thus, more
Spanish speakers] , converts Natives to Catholicism and
Columbus is deemed victoriously as a hero.
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