→ Pre itso- Fedualism

• divided

→ Renaissance

• Luxury goods

  • Silk

  • Gun powder

  • Spices

→ New Monarchs

• King Henry

• Queen Isabella

→ Tech

• Compass

• Caravel

• Astrolobe (Old GPS)

• Lateen Sails

  • Smaller triangular sail

  • Tacking

Conquistadores

→ 1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas

→ Lead of conquest

• H Cortez

  • Motives: 3 G’s (Gold, God, Glory)

  • Young (late 20s)

  • Southern Spain

  • Males

    • Mestizo ppl

Settlement

→ Encomienda System

• Feudalism land/grant

  • Villages

  • Labor

  • Farms

  • Mining

→ Spain’s downfall

1492 - Spanish

1607 - Eng

• Inflation

• Pop low

→ French settlement

• 1530

• Canada (St Lawerence)

  • Miss River

  • Low Pop

• Economic Fur trade

  • deer

  • beaver

• Natives

  • Guns

  • Metal tools

• Royal Neglect

  • Hands off

→ Reformation

• Protestant Reformation

• M. Luther (95 thesis)

• Christ

  • Catholics

  • Protestant

  • Lutherians

  • Calvinists

  • Baptists

• Anti Catholic Feelings

  • Taxes

  • Land

→ 1534 Act of. Supremacy: England

• Cut ties to Catholic Church

• Queen Elizabeth

• Parliament

• 1570 Excommunicate

  • Surge of Nationalism

→ War

• Sea Dogs - Pirates

• F. Drake

• 1588 - Spain & Armanda

• England wins

→ Roanoke “Lost Colony”

• H . Hudson

• Canada - France

• South U.S - Spain

• W. Raleigh - “Virginia”

• N.C - 1587 - Roanoke (100 ppl)

• 1590 - “Croatoan”

• Poor location