a) 225 million years ago, a supercontinent began to break off to form new continents i) 10 million years ago, nature had formed the basic shape of North America (1) Ice age occurred 2 million years ago a) Ice age contributed to the origins of human civilization in North America i) Due to the lowered the sea level with glaciers which uncovered a land bridge with Eurasia and North America, however 10,000 years later the land bridge was closed off (1) Small group of nomadic Asian hunters came and were the first immigrants of North America ii) Before 1492, 54 million people inhabited North and South …show more content…
These plantations would shape the New World b) Bartholomeu Dias made a trip to the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488 c) Vasco de Gama reached India in 1498 d) Portugal controlled African coast and the gate from Africa to India, so Spain set their sight westward for expansion a) Printing press were introduced in 1450 spread the knowledge obtained to everyone b) Oct. 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus landed on the Bahamas after six weeks at sea i) Columbus an explorer, believed that he had landed in India, however it was the Americas ii) Europe gained lots of resources from the New World and Africa a) The discovery of the New World changed everything for both worlds as they brought different items to both worlds which was known as the Columbian exchange i) The New world gave Europeans precious metal and other things (1) Lots of foods such as Corn, potatoes, pineapples, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate (2) A sexually transmitted disease also arrived to Europe which was Syphilis b) Europe also brought new things to the New
Christopher Columbus discovered the America’s for Spain in 1492. The explorers and settlers that settled in Central and South America were mostly Spanish and Portuguese. The English took notice of the Spanish success in the America’s, so they decided to explore the upper part of the America’s, North America, in the late 1500’s.
On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus landed on unknown territory, however, in his perspective of Earth he thought he made a new route to Asia. He travels throughout the lands, soon, he discovers new forms of inhabitant plants, as well as, indigenous people that were native to those lands. Years later he soon unravels that it was all unaccustomed terrain. The monarchy of Spain also discovers Columbus’s new discoveries, then, they send more explorers to conquer the lands. In 1520, Hernan Cortes goes with the order from Spanish royalty to go to the newly discovered lands to conquer them, also, help expand the Spanish empire. Overall, Columbus and Cortes both reported the new lands they recently discovered back to Spain, however, their descriptions
to ask yourself, which is more important, that Columbus made his way to America or
If Native Americans were able to sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the time shortly before Christopher Columbus, would they have been able to conquer and colonize countries like Spain or Portugal? Assuming this were even possible, there are a significant factor that would have given the old world an upper hand in such a scenario. This paper will show that even if the Native Americans would have been the first to reach out and make contact, history would have still favored the Iberians.
through glaciation and glacial retreat affected the date of arrival and presence of indigenous people throughout the
Whether it was a day of huge discovery or a day of dark doom, Christopher Columbus set out from Spain on August 3, 1492 (Microsoft Encarta). With him he had high hopes, great expectations, a dream, a highly moraled crew, and three Spanish caravel ships. The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. At that time the crew and Columbus had strong intentions of reaching what they thought was the East Indies (Burdette 26). However, the crews were a week and a half out from Spain. They were sure they were near land. It could have been just a see bird or the weeds growing on the Sargasso Sea. A prime example that the rest of the crew or Columbus himself had not had any exact information such as maps about the sea. Following the trade winds they had followed, they were being lead to N. America
Columbus was in command of three separate ships. The Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa María. Columbus taking overall command captained the Santa María. the Pinta was captained by Martín Alonso Pinzón and the Niña by Vicente Yañez Pinzón. First landfall was on the island of San Salvador. The land turned out to be a small island in the present-day Bahamas. Columbus named the island San Salvador, although he remarked in his journal that the natives referred to it as Guanahani. (Knopf). The second landfall was in Cuba. Columbus being far off on his navigation believed they had found part of China. He sent two men to investigate them being the first two people to observe the smoking of tobacco. The third landfall was Hispaniola or modern day Haití. Columbus grounded the Santa María and had to abandon ship taking command of the Niña. Columbus negotiating with the chief arranged to leave 39 men for settlement. On January 16th, the final two ships the Pinta and the Santa María reunited and departed for Spain and made landfall on March 4th. On my research of the first voyage Columbus made I found an intriguing paragraph written by Christopher Minster,
2. The events that led up to the Age of Exploration and Discovery included improvements in technology and the seeking of Gold, God, and Glory. Now that europeans had invented boats like caravels that could sail in shallow waters, and better navigation tools, that had all that
Once King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain heard that Columbus believed that he could find a shorter route to get to Asia, they saw their opportunity and took it, but what they did not know was that the calculations Columbus had gotten of the earth were wrong and they would not end up in Asia. At last, Columbus did not land in Asia, but instead ended up in a whole different continent.
The immediate cause of the European voyages of discovery was the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. While Egypt and Italian city-state of Venice was left with a monopoly on ottoman trade for spices and eastern goods it allowed Portugal and Spain to break the grip by finding an Atlantic route. Portugal took the lead in the Atlantic exploration because of the reconquest from the Muslims, good finances, and their long standing seafaring traditions. In dealing with agriculture, The Portuguese discovered Brazil on accident, but they concentrated on the Far East and used Brazil as a ground for criminals. Pernambuco, the first area to be settled, became the world’s largest sugar producer by 1550. Pernambuco was a land of plantations and Indian slaves. While the market for sugar grew so did the need for slaves. Therefore the African Slave start became greatly into effect. Around 1511 Africans began working as slaves in the Americas. In 1492, Columbus embarked on his voyage from Spain to the Americas. The Euro...
The statement in question for this assignment puts forth various assertions: that the Little Ice Age cooled the climate worldwide, that it wasn’t the coldest period since the last ice age, and that because the earth is in a natural time of warming from this period, human-made greenhouse gasses are not plausible as a source of global warming. Some of these statements are true, but there are also fallacies within these assertions.
1. Choose two events that paved the way for European voyages of exploration and discuss how
In the story “following the food” the author perspective of the Paleo-Indians in North America is that they were only following were there food led them. These nomadic hunters, would pick up everything they needed to start a new life and leave to follow the food because that was needed for survival. They would band together and walk to where there food led them, even if it was halfway across the world. The author uses this perspective of the Paleo-Indians to explain migration by showing us they could not stay in a place a long time because they had to follow where the food was. Still some Archaeologist believe that this was not the first time this had happened.
In 1492 Christopher Columbus was said to be the first arrival on American soil from the East.
...t of laurasia, just like most of the other plates. North America,Europe, and Green land all used to be connect because of Pangea ( as mentioned earlier). But when everything started to separate, first europe, then green land, and lastly the North American plate. After pangea was no more and the plates all started moving, the continents started going their own ways, there fore putting the continents where they are today.