PPT-Europeans in North America

16001660 The Americas What now Weve learned about the native cultures in the Americas and what happened in the beginning of contact with the Europeans but what now Europeans began to colonize the territory in the Americas. Arrival of Europeans. Europeans were interested in the spice trade. Portuguese were first to reach Southeast Asia in 1511. Dutch set up trading post in 1596.. Dutch pushed out Portuguese and were the main European traders in Southeast Asia. Culture . Clash!. The Aborigines had no idea what to make of the white people. - White people were not part of their ancient stories. - Maybe they were devils or stupid ghosts of their ancestors who could not speak Aboriginal languages. “How lifestyles . of Aboriginal people changed and adapted as a result of European . occupation”. Pre European-Occupation. Before European Occupation. The . Jigalong. Mob and many aboriginal tribes, prior to the European occupation, lived day to day hunting and gathering for religious ceremonies. They lived by various laws and beliefs which kept boundaries and rule on their life but allowed them them to go about every day business without question.. “God, Glory, and Gold”. Europeans had . (no) . neither. . the. interest . nor the . ability to explore foreign lands.. That changed by the early 1400s.. The desire to . get rich . + . spread Christianity. The student will describe how early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural interactions among Europeans, Africans and . Native Americans. . Beringia. - Land Bridge to . North America. Which . Europeans. Discovered North America and Canada First?. Vikings:. 981: . Bjarni. . landed in Newfoundland by accident. Leif Erikson . in 1001  Heard about . Bjarni. & made his own trip to Newfoundland (. What do you notice is different about this map from the ones on the walls? . Why did explorations happen when they did?. A variety of factors all came together to make the time period (1400-1600) the “age of exploration”. to the Renaissance and the Voyages of Exploration. 2. The Age of Exploration. 1. The . First Europeans to attempt to set up a colony in North America were the Vikings around the year 1000 CE.. 2. L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Columbian Exchange. Native American crops (potatoes & corn) helped improve diets & life expectancy. European grains, horses, & cattle transformed many Indian cultures . European diseases like smallpox & influenza killed 90% of Native Americas . Ch. 1: I can. . .. describe how trade and political centralization transformed West Africa before the advent of the Atlantic Slave Trade. .. describe . the role the Columbian Exchange played in the formation of the Atlantic world. North America is the . 3. rd. largest continent, containing . 16.5%. of the earth’s total land area.. North America is the . 4. th. . most . populous. continent with a population around . 515 million. Key Concept 1. Before the arrival of the Europeans, native populations in North America developed a wide variety of social, political and economic structures based in part on interactions with the environment and each other. Mexico. Central America. Caribbean Islands. South America. Why do we call it . Latin. America?. We call it LATIN America because most of the European countries that colonized this region spoke Spanish or Portuguese. Both of these languages are derived (or come from) the ancient Latin language. Thus we call this region Latin America.. M. Wagner. 3 Worlds Meet. Native Americans . Africans. Europeans. Our Focus. Over 1,000 years ago, the Vikings explored the Atlantic Ocean.. The Vikings established at least . one settlement in North .