1. European Exploration and Settlement: 1492-1607

2. European Ideas and Events impacting North America
1096- Crusades begin
1271- Marco Polo explores China
Trade, plague ends feudalism, leads to
Renaissance developments
1. rise of the city- banking, joint stock company, trade
2. Nation-State supplants the Church
3. Ideals of Renaissance= explorer
4. New inventions, technology

4. Marco Polo
Italian Explorer

6. Main Trade Routes:

7. Anxious investors wait for news about the South Sea Company, a joint stock company formed in London in 1711.
Joint stock companies are a form of partnership in which each member, or stockholder, is financially responsible for the acts of the company. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

12. Spain, 1492
After forcing many Jews to be baptized and then referring to them as "marranos" (i.e.  swine), and after an Inquisition in which some 700 marranos were burnt at the stake for showing signs of "Jewish" taint, Spain expels all Jews from the country.

15. Zhu Di’s Map of the World, circa 1405

16. Shanhai Yudi Quantu Map, circa 1425

18. The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus

28. Effects of the Columbus Voyages
America’s land led to end of feudalism
Gold creates inflation – destabilizes
European economy
Political power shifts to Spain
Treaty of Tordesillas (1492)

29. Great Biological Exchange
Old World to New World:
New World to Old World:
Diseases:
Smallpox Measles Chicken Pox Malaria Yellow Fever Influenza The Common Cold
Syphilis
Animals:
Horses Cattle Pigs Sheep Goats Chickens
Honeybees
Earthworms
Turkeys Llamas Alpacas Guinea Pigs

30. Old World to New World New World to Old World
Plants:
Rice Wheat Barley Oats Coffee Sugarcane Bananas Melons Olives Dandelions Daisies Clover Ragweed Kentucky Bluegrass
Corn (Maize) Potatoes (White & Sweet Varieties) Beans (Snap, Kidney, & Lima Varieties) Tobacco Peanuts Squash Peppers Tomatoes Pumpkins Pineapples Cacao (Source of Chocolate) Chicle (Source of Chewing Gum) Papayas Manioc (Tapioca) Guavas Avocados

36. 1494

39. Hernan Cortes
Conquers Aztecs

41. Cortes’ Conquests,

44. Missions in North America
Red= Spanish
Yellow= French

53. Henry Hudson, Netherlands
Third Voyage, 1609

54. Peter Minuit (Lynden) purchases Manhattan for trinkets worth $24, 1626

57. New Netherlands, 1661

59. Defeat of the
Spanish Armada, 1588