HIST 152 Chapter 1 THEREFORE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN COLONIAL OUTPOSTS IN THE new world A THEY EMPLOYEDINDEPENDENT ADVENTURERS OR EXPLORERS THAT WERE KNOWN AS conquistadors http://www.wvup.edu/Academics/socialscience/hist_152_chapter_1.htm
Extractions: HIST 152 CHAPTER 1 NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS TONIGHT, WELL BEGIN WITH NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES THE DISCOVERY, AND WE USE THE WORD DISCOVER LOOSELY, BY COLUMBUS INITIATED A SERIES OF CULTURAL CONTACTS BETWEEN INDIANS, EUROPEANS, AND EVEN AFRICANS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE EACH OF THESE PEOPLES BROUGHT PRECONCEPTIONS THAT HAD BEEN MOLDED BY THEIR OWN LONG HISTORIES AND THEIR CONTACTS WITH OTHER PEOPLES O.K. LETS GET STARTED AMERICA WAS FIRST INHABITED SOME 30,000 YEARS AGO DURING THAT TIME SMALL BANDS OF NOMADIC SIBERIANS CROSSED THE BERING STRAIGHT LAND BRIDGE THAT EXISTED BETWEEN SIBERIA AND ALASKA NOW OF COURSE, IT IS UNDER WATER AS THEY MIGRATED EASTWARD ACROSS ALASKA AND CANADA, THEY ALSO MOVED SOUTHWARD BY 8000 B.C.E. THE NOMADS HAD MADE THEIR WAY SOUTH ALL THE WAY TO THE TIP OF SOUTH AMERICA BY THIS TIME SMALL BANDS OR CLANS COVERED PRESENT DAY ALASKA, WESTERN CANADA, THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, MEXICO, AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA SINCE THESE BANDS OF NOMADS ARRIVED AT DIFFERENT TIMES OVER A SPAN OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS THEY NEVER DEVELOPED A SENSE OF ATTACHMENT TO THE GROUP OF PEOPLE AS A WHOLE SO WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS FACT?
Our Age Of Discovery - Council On Foreign Relations on new worlds like those once dug by the conquistadors in the new world. The original conquistadors staked out new lands and new trade routes for http://www.cfr.org/pub5492/max_boot/our_age_of_discovery.php
Extractions: @import url(/css/main.css); Why does this page look this way? It appears that you are using either an older, classic Web browser or a hand-held device that allows you to view our content but may not work with every feature of our site. If you are using an older browser, please upgrade for the best experience. Welcome to CFR. Skip to section navigation Skip to content Home FAQs ... Advanced Search Navigation Author: Max Boot February 3, 2003 The Washington Post The deaths of the Columbia astronauts are a terrible tragedy, but they should not lead us to conclude that manned spaceflight is too risky or not worth funding. It's not easy to do in this time of national mourning, but we need to put this accident into perspective. Anyone who volunteers to be an astronaut has to be incredibly brave, because it's one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States today. The Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't break out astronauts as a separate category, but pilots as a whole suffer more fatalities one-tenth of 1 percent died in the line of duty in 2000 than any other profession except timber cutters and fishermen. And those who fly space shuttles are far more at risk than those who fly 747s. But those statistics are more an indication of how safe life is in 2003 America than of how dangerous spaceflight is. NASA's safety record is pretty impressive: just three fatal accidents (Apollo 1 in 1967, Challenger in 1986, Columbia on Saturday) in 45 years. It goes without saying that one death is one too many. But compare that record with the hazards of the Age of Exploration that began in the 15th century.
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History Channel Classroom: Why did Columbus call the people he encountered in the new world Indians? What was his role in world history? The Spanish conquistadors decimated the http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.116
Extractions: Gold! is a four-part series that explores the history of gold and its impact on civilization. The Gold Wars This episode of Gold! examines the ways in which the desire and lust for gold has fueled various wars throughout history. Because of humankind's greed and thirst for power, the quest for gold has resulted in untold numbers of lost lives. From the earliest days of ancient empires to the explorations of The New World, the search for the precious yellow metal has been a catalyst in historic events and the rise and fall of some of the world's mightiest empires. Gold! would be useful for classes on World History and Culture, American History and Culture, Economics, Geography and Military History. It is appropriate for middle school and high school. OBJECTIVES: Students will learn about the role of gold as an agent and catalyst in world history. They will explore how the quest for gold built and destroyed empires, and fueled the exploration of the New World. NATIONAL HISTORY STANDARDS: Gold! fulfills the following National Standards for History for grades 5-12: chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis and interpretations, and historical research capabilities for United States History era 1, 5 and 6; World History eras 6 and 7.
Fathom :: The Source For Online Learning the Spanish first came to the new world, conquistadors used native maps toexplore and The European appetite for information about the new world was http://www.fathom.com/feature/122601/
Extractions: By Institution American Film Institute British Library British Museum Cambridge University Press Columbia University London School of Economics Natural History Museum New York Public Library RAND Science Museum University of Chicago University of Michigan Museum Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution When Two Worlds Collide: Amerindian Mapping and the Spanish Conquest of the Americas EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION When the Spanish first came to the New World, conquistadors used native maps to explore and exploit Amerindian resources and people. The European appetite for information about the New World was voraciouswildly fictitious maps of the Americas were disseminated throughout Europeyet the colonizers overlooked a number of indigenous forms of mapping and recording data. In an essay adapted from her lecture at the Maps, Identity and World Studies workshop at the University of Chicago, Barbara Mundy describes how European concepts of "map" and "mapping" embraced only products from the classical cartographic tradition and ignored such valuable native forms as the lienzo and the intricately knotted quipu he clash between the Spanish conquistadors and their Amerindian opponents was played out in maps, as well as on the ground. The battles of conquest raged in the 1520s and 1530s in Mesoamerica (Mexico and Guatemala) and the Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador). And while most key cities and peoples were controlled by Spanish troops by the 1540s, the Spanish struggled throughout the century to establish enduring rule. The trajectory of one strand of native mapping follows the contours of this history. During the early years of conquest, Spaniards commissioned or used native maps for exploration or maneuvers. Later on, native maps were put to bureaucratic uses. Many were used in court cases, some of them for grants of land, and others to establish or protect native landholdings.
Voyage Summary: Exploring The Route Of The Conquistadors Follow the route used by Spanish explorers in the 16th century to transport goldand supplies throughout their numerous territories in the new world. http://www.clippercruise.com/voyages/summary.asp?tripID=614&FromPage=/voyages/co
U.S. History - Pre-Colonial conquistadors Teaching Guide Different Views of the world Interpreting PrimarySources European Discovery of the new world http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_PreColonial.shtml
Extractions: Print this page Topic : Pre-Colonial Tip: Press ctrl and F (or apple and F on a Mac) to perform a keyword search of this page. To keyword search all Best of History Web Sites pages use the search engine located on the home page. This page was last updated July 19, 2005 The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame The Sport of Life and Death was voted Best Overall Site for 2002 by Museums and the Web and has won a slew of other web awards. The site is based on a traveling exhibition now showing at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey and bills itself as "an online journey into the ancient spectacle of athletes and gods." The Sport of Life and Death features dazzling special effects courtesy of Macromedia Flash technology and its overall layout and organization are superb. Not just stylish, the site's content is excellent and engaging as well. For instance, there are helpful interactive maps, timelines, and samples of artwork in the Explore the Mesoamerican World section. The focus of the site, however, is the Mesoamerican ballgame, the oldest organized sport in history. The sport is explained through a beautiful and engaging combination of images, text, expert commentary, and video. Visitors can even compete in a contest! A must see for Middle School or 9th-grade World History teachers. Columbus and the Age of Discovery Created by Millersville University, this award-winning site is part of text retrieval system that contains over 1100 text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, official calendars and other sources relating to various encounter themes. There is an index of articles and categories, links to Discovery Literature and related sites, and you can email the webmaster Dr. Tirado. A great site for research on Columbus and European contact with native americans.
The New World Holocaust How vastly different was the English encounter with the new world natives. These men are the successors of the brutal conquistadors who waged a pitiless http://www.reformation.org/new-world-holocaust.html
Extractions: The New World Holocaust!! Last updated on Dec. 12, 2003 " From all this it is clear how a virtuous life in the preachers of the faith takes the place of miracles, so that unbelievers readily hear the words of life and see that it is reasonable to believe them, and thus finally they gain these men for Christ. But it will be just the opposite if their lives are stained by crime, especially by devastating their lands, by looting, invading and unjustly seizing the domains and properties of these same unbelievers. And if for this reason a countless number of them are killed and slaughtered, as we have always done and continue to do in the Indian lands of the west, nothing can be clearer than that we have become an effective obstacle to their conversion" (In Defense of the Indians , de Las Casas, p. 136). today is to change a few WORDS: "But it will be just the opposite if their lives are stained by crime, especially by devastating their lands, by looting, invading and unjustly seizing the domains and properties of these same unbelievers. And if for this reason a countless number of them are killed and slaughtered, as we have always done and continue to do in
Extractions: Southpor t Press: Original Sources in Exploration 2003 book catalog, p.1: South and Central America and the Caribbean Originally published in Latin as De Orbe Novo (1511-1530). Translated into English (1912) by Francis Augustus MacNutt Spanish caravel, Letter of Columbus1493 Vol.1: 2003, paperback, 305 pages (Decades 1-3). Illustrations, maps, and notes. ISBN 1-887954-08-2. Vol.2: 2003, paperback, 361 pages (Decades 4-8). Illustrations, notes, index, bibliography. ISBN 1-887954-09-0. 2 volume set: ISBN 1-887954-07-4. US $24.95 Map of the New World, from Dampier Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus This work, part of a series that also includes The History of Columbus (1828), was compiled by the legendary American writer Washington Irving in 1829. Irving had unique access to both published and unpublished texts of Don Martin Fernandez de Navarette, the early 19th century Spanish editor and biographer of Columbus. Navarette had assembled many documents from the Royal archives in Spain including journals, maps, court records, and private correspondence of the conquistadors. The Companions of Columbu 2003, paperback, viii + 363 pages. Notes, index, and bibliography, plus new maps and illustrations.
Extractions: Web Resources While the Web is a viable place to look for information on early European exploration of America, beware . Quality control is non-existent on the Web. It is essentially a vanity press. Look at each site that you view with a critical eye, and note things such as: domain (educational, commercial, government, etc. site), accuracy, bias, currency, etc. To learn more about evaluating what you find, see The Web as a Research Tool First, be aware that Bailey/Howe Library has many print resources to offer that focus on European exploration in America. These materials can be very useful. Review the following list for a sampling of materials at Bailey/Howe: To locate further information available at Bailey/Howe Library, use the Library Catalog I. Understanding Web addresses (URLs): A Web address gives lots of important information about the Web site and it is useful to understand the structure of a URL. http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/muslim/isl/isl.html
The Spanish Come To The New World The Spanish Come to the new world. spanishmap.gif (18296 bytes) In 1523Pizarro led an expedition to explore and conquer the land of a wealthy Indian http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/spanishexplorers.htm
Extractions: Balboa led an expedition across Panama looking for gold, but discovered the Pacific Ocean instead. It took 24 days for his group of 190 Spaniards and 1000 natives to cross the 45 miles of jungle. On September 29, 1513 they reached the Pacific Ocean and claimed all the land that touched the Pacific Ocean for Spain. Back to Chart Hernando Cortez Cortez was a young Spaniard who went to Cuba to find his fortune. He heard stories of gold in Mexico and South America. In 1519 Cortez left Cuba to find this gold. With 300 Aztecs to every one of Cortez's men the Spanish fought. After 3 battles the Indians gave up. They could not complete against the guns and horses. The Spaniards also wore metal armor. More than this the Indians were afraid of the "god-like" warriors. On November 8, 1519 Cortez reached Mexico City and was received by Montezuma, the Aztec emperor. Cortez captured Montezuma and began to rule the empire through him. The Spaniards made the Aztecs work in the mines looking for gold and silver. This gold and silver was shipped back to Spain. Back to Chart Francisco Coronado Coronado commanded an expedition which left from western Mexico in 1540. He was searching for the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola. Coronado rode through northern Mexico and into what is now Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Coronado did not find any golden cities, but discovered the Pueblo Indians. Coronado was upset at not finding the cities of gold. He sent his men off in different directions with orders to find them. His men found the Grand Canyon instead. Coronado would not give up. He marched his army east. There he found the buffalo and grassy plains, but no cities of gold. Coronado claimed all the land over which he and his men had traveled in the name of Spain.
New World Explorers Cavelier De La Salle Cavelier de La Salle_This important explorer was driven by his desire to her colonial policy in the new world in the eighteenth century until finally http://www.archaeolink.com/new_world_explorers_cavelier_de_.htm
Extractions: Explorer Cavelier de La Salle Home Arctic Explorers General Resources Antarctica Explorers General Resources Africa Explorers Behaim, Martin Cadamosto, Alvise da Dias, Bartolomeu Eannes, Gil ... Speke, John Hanning New World Explorers Albanel, Charles Balboa, Vasco Nunez de Brûlé, Étienne Cabot, John ... Vespucci, Amerigo World Explorers Cook, James Da Gama, Vasco Drake, Sir Francis General Resources ... Zheng He (Cheng Ho) Cavelier de La Salle _This important explorer was driven by his desire to find a route to the Orient. Read his story here. - Illustrated - From the Virtual Museum of New France -
Glossary Of Exploration Terms - EnchantedLearning.com The conquistadors were Spanish conquerors/explorers who sailed to the The NewWorld is another name for the Americas (or the Western Hemisphere). http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/glossary.shtml
Extractions: The analemma is a figure-8-shaped diagram that shows the declination of the sun (the angle that the sun is from the equator), for each day in the year. If you took a snapshot of the sun at the same time each day (from the same location), the Sun would make a figure shaped like an analemma during the course of a year (this is because the Earth is tilted on its axis and because it doesn't orbit the Sun in a perfect circle). ASTROLABE
Mosaic Unit 9 The Conquest Of The New World A Mid-20th Century View The Conquest of the new world A mid20th Century View After a carefulexploration of this wonderful land Pizarro returned to Spain and there obtained a http://college.hmco.com/history/west/mosaic/chapter9/source253.html
Explorers In Texas And Mexico conquistadors Cabeza deVaca - Cabeza de Vaca s Trails - Use the new WorldExplored, The Prime time news in Europe during the year 1520 was the http://www.mckinneyisd.net/Campuses/school_websites/walker/TeacherCreated/Fourth
Human Nature, Technology & The Environment were transmitted from European explorers to new world populations. In thecase of the European expeditions to the new world, they imposed a new http://fubini.swarthmore.edu/~ENVS2/jordan/jordandisease.htm
Extractions: European Disease in the New World When the explorers first stepped foot onto their ships to embark on journeys to new and far away lands, their numerous diseases traveled with them. The consequences of their health for the "discovered" people were probably not taken into consideration. Their rationale focused largely on the speculation of how much they could get of whatever they found, in return for their progressive technologies and religious beliefs. Any other impact was irrelevant. They could easily have believed that in the end, everyone would win. Yet regardless of the exact nature of the intentions of the Europeans, the reality is that multiple contagious diseases were transmitted from European explorers to New World populations. Already devastating diseases became even worse during life at sea. Due to unsanitary conditions and rotten food, the spread of disease among passengers accelerated, (http://ndhrcanada.visions.ab.ca/disease.htm). Upon their arrival to the new land, the Europeans were infested with cholera, typhus, smallpox, measles, typhoid, diphtheria, plague, influenza, tuberculosis, venereal disease, and scarlet fever, all diseases to which the people of the New World possessed no immunity. The forced contact between the two peoples made the transmission of these contagious diseases unavoidable. The results were quick and disastrous. Historians have estimated that in Canada, "within a 200- year period, First Nations populations were reduced by as much as 95 percent," (http://ndhrcanada.visions.ab.ca/disease.htm) as a result of European-originated disease.
MSN Encarta - Colonialism And Colonies Much of the silver from the new world ended up in India and China. In 1609Hudson entered presentday new York Bay and explored the river that now bears http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576293_4/Colonialism_and_Colonies.html
Extractions: Search for books and more related to Colonialism and Colonies Encarta Search Search Encarta about Colonialism and Colonies Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Colonialism and Colonies ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Page 4 of 7 Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 30 items Article Outline Introduction Types of Colonies Motives for Colonization Colonial Economies ... Conclusion V Print Preview of Section The Greeks and the Romans both had colonies, which they dominated by establishing military posts in conquered territory. The Greeks controlled most of the islands in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and later the Romans controlled the whole area from Constantinople (now Ä°stanbul) in Turkey, to Palestine and North Africa, to Gaul (France) and Britain. The Romans developed a theory of colonization. They believed that a garrison (military post) must include women who could work in fields and bear children. The post could then become a settlement capable of supporting and reproducing itself. Centuries later, English settlers put this theory into practice in their colonies in Ireland and Virginia.
Juan Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. Small pox, a disease previously unknown inthe new world, swept through the Aztec defenders and killed perhaps a http://www.nps.gov/cabr/juan.html
Extractions: Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo led the first European expedition to explore what is now the west coast of the United States. Cabrillo departed from the port of Navidad, Mexico, on June 27, 1542. Three months later he arrived at "a very good enclosed port." That port is known today as San Diego bay. Historians believe he anchored his flagship, the San Salvador, on Point Loma's east shore near Cabrillo National Monument. Cabrillo later died during the expedition, but his crew pushed on, possibly as far north as Oregon, before thrashing winter storms forced them to back to Mexico. More information about Cabrillo and the expedition is presented below. Cabrillo National Monument, established in 1913, commemorates Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's voyage of discovery. A heroic statue of Cabrillo looks out over the bay that he first sailed into on September 28, 1542. A film, "In Search of Cabrillo," and an exhibit hall present Cabrillo's life and times each day at the Visitor Center. Ranger-led programs about Cabrillo are usually available on weekends and on many weekdays during summer months. So Who Was Cabrillo?
Explorers The French Come to the new world biographies of French explorers Incas andConquistadors - high school reading level informational site about Incas http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/explorer/default.htm
Extractions: Explorers General Sites Individual Explorer Pages General Sites The Age of Exploration - elementary themes web links The Age of Exploration - explorer pages by high school students information about Columbus, Drake, Magellan, Hernando de Soto, Ponce de Leon, and Vasco de Gama Mr. Avery's Class: Explorers Project - 5th grade explorer reports on Vespucci, Captain Cook, Ericson, De Soto, Columbus, Magellan, Marco Polo, Cabot, Ponce De Leon, and Vasco de Gama The Case of the Missing Trunks - Explorer Webquest Clothesline Biographies - info on Columbus written by 2nd graders Conquistadors - PBS online learning adventure Discovers by Alphabet - high school reading level information on explorers from A - Z Discoverers Web - numerous resources with various reading levels Discovery and Exploration - high school reading level documents the discovery and exploration with both manuscripts and published maps Early Explorers m atch famous early explorers with their accomplishments European Explorers - explorer bios organized by country Explorations of the Northwest Passage -Arctic and Northwest Passage explorers Explorer Trading Cards - written by Mr. Leahy's 5th graders Explorer look at portraits and see if you can earn Explorer Trading Cards
Teaching American History Institutes Welcome to the Settlement of the new world A Brochure for newcomers Spanish,French, English, Dutch and Portuguese explorers came to America. http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/tah/lesson/spanish.html
Extractions: However, as the colonies became the source of wealth for the mother countries, the lives of the indigenous population were molded to fit the desires of the conquerors. Mexico, and much of the southwestern United States) Spanish ranchers, farmers, and miners wanted easy access to free Indian labor and found ways to obtain it. Other Spaniards, especially missionaries, wanted the native populations treated with compassion, with the goal of converting them to Christianity. Bureaucrats were often caught in the middle.
