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__Chapter 1 __ · Movement of the earth’s crust and the Great Ice Age created what today is the terrain of North America · The earliest time people were believed to come to North America was 35,000 years ago when they came on a land bridge from Eurasia · By time Europeans came to America in 1492 there was already 54 million people there · The main groups before Europeans got there were Incas, Mayans, Aztecs · Maize was the primary food of many people during this time · No dense concentration of humans existed in North America like it did in Mexico · By 1000 A.D. cultivating of maize, beans, and squash reached North America · <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">These methods help develop some of the highest populated people in North America including Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee people <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Iroquois were the closest to making a nation-state like nations in Mexico and Peru <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Most North American people were in small groups before the Europeans got there and the women tended crops while men hunted <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">North America did not feel possessed by anyone even though these people lived there because the people were so spread out and only 4 million lived there <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Scandinavians were the first to venture upon these people but didn’t expand and were abandoned and forgotten <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The discovery of the New World was an accident <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Many new goods were wanted from Asia because none of these things have been experienced before <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">People were eager to find less expensive ways to find these goods and that’s how they stumbled upon the Americas <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Marco Polo further interested people into the New World because of his book about it <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">People charged more for slaves that lived farther away so they couldn’t flee to their native land <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Modern plantation system based on large scale agriculture and exploitation of slave labor shaped the agriculture of the New World <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bartholomeu Dias was the first person to round the southernmost tip if the “Dark Continent” <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Spain got wealthy and wanted to taste the wealth of the Indies because of the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Portugal controlled the African coast so therefore Spain needed to travel westward <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The printing press and compass were very helpful in the search for the New World <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas and the New World began its journey of discovery <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">North American natives are called Indians because Columbus mistook them for people from India <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The plants discovered in the New World helped create the new diet for the people in the Old World <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A “sugar revolution” happened because of the slave labor and mass agriculture of the New World <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Smallpox, yellow fever, and malaria were three of the major killers the Europeans brought to the Native Americans <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Treaty of Tordesillas gave the rights to Columbus for finding the New World <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Spanish conquistadores were other noted explorers that discovered much of the Americas <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Vasco Nunez Balboa discovered the Pacific ocean and Ferdinand Magellan’s crew was the first to travel around the whole world <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Other famous explorers that discovered most of southern North America was Juan Ponce de Leon, Francisco Coronado, Hernando de Soto, and Francisco Pizarro <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Encomienda was a system that let colonist have Indians as long as they tried to Christianize them <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Hernan Cortes was the explorer that destroyed the Aztec empire by war and disease <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">New Mexico was the central institution for Roman Catholic mission <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“ Black Legend” was the concept that conquerors did nothing but torture, steal from, and kill Indians