Larry GoeasAga Gagarin

New World Beginnings

The Shaping of North AmericaAppalachians

probably first to form

Glaciers in Canada flowing to Ohio

Bering Strait crossing from Asia

New World BeginningsPeopling the Americas

The Earliest AmericansChange from hunter

gatherers to agricultural base changes society

Dense concentration of population of Aztecs incomparable

Maize, Beans, Squash

Matrilineal Cultures

Indirect Discoveries of the New World

Crusaders and Asian goods

Norse people fight Europeans

Europeans Enter AfricaCaravel made sailing

around Africa easier Portuguese slave

trade for sugar islands of Madeira and Canaries

Spain: Ferdinand and Isabella kick the Moors out

African trade of slaves

Columbus comes upon a New World

Printing Press Mariner’s CompassAfrican trade of

slaves

When Worlds CollideIsolation led to

phenomenon of not being able to fight disease

Columbian Exchange

The Spanish ConquistadoresConquistadoresTreaty of Todesillas

(Papal line of Demarcation)

Encomienda

The Conquest of MexicoMestizos St. Augustine in

FloridaNorthwest Passage

New World BeginningsThe spread of Spanish America