1. Pre-Colombian Culture Hearths
Aztecs in central Mexico

2. Pre-Colombian Culture Hearths
Mayas in the Yucatan

3. Pre-Colombian Culture Hearths
Incas in Peru

4. Diseases decimate native population
(smallpox)

5. Colonization
3 G’s of Colonization
God/Gold/Glory

6. Colonization Two dominate Colonial Powers A. Spain
B. Portugal in Brazil

7. Spanish Conquest/Cortes
Conquest of Mexico lead by Hernan Cortes

8. What do colonizers bring?
Language

9. What do colonizers bring?
Catholicism

10. What do colonizers bring?
Enslavement

11. Pattern of language
Green = Spanish
Orange = Portuguese
Blue = French

12. Pattern of religion / Christianity

13. Pattern of Religion
voodoo
Brought to Caribbean from Africa by slaves

14. Pattern of Religion
Animism
Found in Amazon basin

15. Mestizo
a person of combined European and Native American descent

16. African Influences
Calypso Music

17. African Influences: Reggae
Bob Marley

18. African Influences: Carnival
Celebration before Lent

19. Rio de Janiero Sambadrome

20. African Influences
Samba: dance style of carnival

21. African Influences
Capoeira