Chapter+1+Notes

Chapter One 
 * 54 million people from Siberia and the rest of Eurasia populated the Americas.
 * Early American civilization and sophistication was because of agriculture.
 * Most of agriculture was corn.
 * The Iroquois were the first with a military system.
 * Peoples in North America lived in small, scattered, impertinent settlements.
 * Native Americans lived peacefully with the earth.
 * The Europeans taught the natives that man ruled the earth.
 * They came looking for a new route to Asia and India.
 * They found Africa first.
 * Purchased/took gold and slaves.
 * This was the beginning of the modern plantation system.
 * 1492- Columbus found North America
 * He and his men traded exotic goods found in America to the Old World for the crops and animals of the Old World.
 * Unintentionally traded disease too.
 * Spain became the dominant exploring and colonizing power in the 1500’s.
 * Spaniards spread the word of God and were in search of gold and silver.
 * Spain was swimming in New Gold silver by 1600.
 * 1519- Cortez entered the Mexican Valley and became friends with the Aztecs.
 * 1521- Cortez conquered the Mexican Valley and took down the Aztec empire.
 * England and France really made their marks in the New world in the 1500’s with a lot of conquering of North American land and the spreading of Christianity.
 * By the early 1600’s, Spain had conquered all of Mexico.
 * Also by the early 1600’s, Christianity had been spread to almost all the Americas.