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Spanish Influence 

Unit 8 Topic 2

Christopher Columbus

• Reached “New World” in 1492 - Island at Hispaniola

• 1493 -  Returned to Spain to get further support

  •  Brought some of the Taino people with him to show the court

• Returned to establish colonies

  • Lands controlled by another country

Cortés and the Aztecs

• 1519, Hernán cortes landed in Mexico

  • conquistadors - conquerors

• cortés conquered Aztecs

  • Montezuma II thought cortés was a god

  • Spanish defeated the Aztecs with supieror weapons, nelp from otner native groups, and disease

Fall of the Inca

• Fransisco Pizarro conquered south America

• spanish kidnapped and killed incan ruler Atanualpa

  • Spanish Lived amoung conquered people

  • Started encomienda system- natives farmed land owned by spanish

Spanish 

• Spanish born in New world

• Mixed heritage

• Native Americans

• Enslaved Native Americans

Influence of Spain

• created first universites in America

  • univerelty of America (c. 1551)

• cultural and religious exchange

  • New foods, music, traditions

• Gains great wealth and international influence

French and English Exploration

Unit 8 Topic 2

Nornwest Passage

• Explosers looking for ia route to Asia througn North America

New France

• Modern day canada (Quebec)

• 1534 - Jacques Cartler discovered the St. Lawrence River

• Frenon generally got along with Indian tribes

• Jesuit missionaries began to arrive

• AugusT 10,1534

  • Feast day of st. lawrence

• Mont- royal → montréal.

• Samuel de champlain became governor of Quebec

• Coloney grew stourly

  • Hard weather

• Fur trade became more popular than farming

• Files du roi → "daughters of the king”

• Capital →s Quebec

  • Merchants

• Montréal → ville Marie creligious)

• Detroit → "strait"

Englisn colonies

• 1497 - 10h0 Cabot reaches Newfoundland

• 1607- Jamestown is founded

• 1607- Menry Hudson founds New Netherland

• British later take it and rename it New York

• 1620 - Plymoutn Colony

• signed the Mayflower compact - governing charter for the coloney

• Colonies had limited self- government

  • oking didnt make all the decisions

• Loro Baltimore (UK)

  • Maryland

  • 15t location → Avalon (Newfoundland)

seven years’ war

• "French and indian war".

• War between England and France for control of onio valley and canada:

• Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759)

  • French are defeared

• 1763- Treaty of paris

  • France lost all landreast of Mississpi to uK, Lovisiana to Spain

• Quebec Act C17 6

  • french settlers can keep language & religion

• Cajun (Acadian) (Nova scotia)

  • UK deported them

• Death of wolfe (Benjamin West)

• Peath of Montcalm (François-Louis-Toseph Watteau)

columbian exchange.

• Global transfer of foods, plants, and animas during colonization of the Americas