1. Three Worlds Meet

2. Native Americans
-Land Bridge
last Ice Age
-Hunting and Gathering
-Agriculture develops
-Ancient civilizations
-adapted to their environments
-close relationship to the land
communal ownership
-belief in universal spirit
-Tribal communities

3. Explorers
-Renaissance
-Exploration
Portugal
Vasco Da Gama
Colombus
1492
San Salvador
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Conquistadors

4. Impact of Contact
-Colombus’ impression
-colonization by force
-effects of disease
-importation of Africans
-Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal

5. Impact of Contact
-Colombus’ impression
-colonization by force
-effects of disease
-importation of Africans
-Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal

6. Impact of Contact
-Colombus’ impression
-colonization by force
-effects of disease
-importation of Africans
-Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal

7. Colombian Exchange
-transfer of goods between societies
-Americas sent corn, potatoes, squash, tomatoes, peanuts, tobacco
-Europe sent horses, cows, pigs, coffee, vanilla, chocolate, and technology

8. European Settlements
-European Settlements as European nations began to settle the New World they settled in certain areas
-Spanish-- St. Augustine, Florida 1565
SW, Florida, Texas
-French– Canada, Mississippi R.
-Dutch—New York
-English—East Coast

9. First English Attempt
-Roanoke, NC
Sir Walter Raleigh
Lost Colony
John White
Virginia Dare