1. TRANSATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS
COLUMBUS’ VOYAGES SET OFF A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT BRING TOGETHER THE PEOPLES OF WESTERN EUROPE, WEST AFRICA, & THE AMERICAS

2. Christopher Columbus
The Spanish Crown agreed to finance Columbus and 3 ships
On Oct. 12, 1492, they sighted land
They found peaceful people, the Taino, noble ones, who they sought to enslave within days of their arrival

3. Christopher Columbus
On future trips, Columbus brought minor royalty, who wanted to improve their lives
Not finding gold, the Spanish went
on slave raids

4. Columbian Exchange
The transfer of plants and animals from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere. ( think Americas, Europe, and Africa)

5. IMPACT ON INDIANS METHODS OF COLONIZATION
ESTABLISH SETTLEMENTS & CONTROL INDIAN INHABITANTS
EUROPEANS FORCE INDIANS TO Work & DOMINATE THEM WITH SOPHISTICATED WEAPONS
RESISTANCE & CONQUEST
IN 1490s SPANISH PUT DOWN NUMEROUS REBELLIONS ON DIFFERENT ISLANDS
DISEASE RAVAGES THE INDIANS
HAVE NO NATURAL IMMUNITY TO EUROPEAN DISEASES
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES KILL HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS

6. Slave Trade Begins
To replace the dead and dying labor force, Spaniards captured more Indians from neighboring islands and Africans from Africa.
As more Indians died, the demand for Africans grew.

7. Impact on Europeans Political ideas were challenged
The Indians did not have a monarch, a ruler chosen by god through birth.
Spain and Portugal argued over what land “belonged” to them.
Pope Alexander VI made the decision with the Treaty of Tordesillas

8. Treaty of Tordesillas -LANDS WEST OF LINE BELONGED TO SPAIN - LANDS EAST OF LINE TO INCLUDE BRAZIL BELONGED TO PORTUGAL

9. New Society is Born
Columbus and Spain benefited from the “discoveries”
In 1499, Columbus found gold in Haiti and made the Indians mine the gold for them.
Future conquistadors make Spain even richer