Chapter 1: The Collision Of Cultures
Chapter Outline
- Indian cultures before Columbus
- Varieties in the Americas
- North American Indian life
- Characteristics
- Smaller tribes
- Migratory
- Communal lands
- Village life in Ohio and Mississippi River valleys
- Response to European invasion
- Weaknesses
- Resistance
- Ability to adapt
- First European contacts with the New World
- Rise of “modern” Europe
- Growth in learning
- Development of towns, trade, and corporations
- Rise of nation states
- Protestant Reformation
- Appeal of Asia
- Voyages of Columbus
- Background
- Expedition of 1492
- Later voyages
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Biological exchanges
- Animals
- Plants
- Devices
- Diseases
- Infections
- Epidemics
- Smallpox
- Exploration and conquest of the New World
- English, Portuguese, and others
- John Cabot
- Brazil
- Spanish dominance
- Creation of the Spanish empire
- Spanish avantages
- Technological
- Cultural
- Conquistadors
- Hernan Cortés
- Francisco Pizarro
- Encomienda system
- Structure
- Affluent Europeans
- Subject natives
- Role of Catholic missionaries
- Spanish heritage
- Spanish names
- Catholicism
- “Spanish borderlands”
- Ponce de León
- Protection
- Spanish Southwest
- Impact of the church
- New Mexico
- Juan de Oñate
- Indian revolt
- Royal province
- Horses
- Spread on the Plains
- Ecological impact
- Economic effect
- Negative consequences
- Spain’s rivals in North America
- The French
- Explorers
- Verrazano
- Cartier
- Champlain
- Joliet and Marquette
- Canada
- New Orleans
- The Dutch privateers
- British defeat of the Spanish Armada
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