SECTION 4
THE ATLANTIC WORLD
IS BORN
FACTS
 COLUMBUS
KNEW THE EARTH
WAS ROUND
 NATIVES WERE LIVING ON THE
AMERICAS & OTHER EUROPEANS
WERE ALREADY THERE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
 BORN
IN 1451 IN GENOA,
ITALY
 BELIEVED THAT GOD HAD
GIVEN HIM A HEROIC
MISSION
A DARING EXPEDITION
 PETITIONED
VARIOUS EUROPEAN
MONARCHS TO SPONSOR HIS
VOYAGE TO THE INDIES
 TITLED “HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE
OCEAN SEA” BY FERDINAND &
ISABELLA OF SPAIN
 GOVERNOR
OF THE ISLANDS
& CONTINENTS THAT HE
DISCOVERED
 SONS
& GRANDSONS WOULD
INHERIT THE TITLE & LANDS
REASONS FOR THE VOYAGE
 HOPED
TO ENRICH HIS FAMILY & TO
GAIN HONOR, FORTUNE, & FAME
 ALSO TO CONVERT INFERIOR
PEOPLE TO CATHOLICISM
 ROYAL PARTONS SHARED THE
DESIRE TO CONVERT PEOPLE
 ECONOMIC MOTIVES
 WANTED
TO BYPASS THE
MUSLIMS & FIND A WAY TO
TRADE DIRECTLY WITH THE
INDIES
 SPAIN’S RIVALRY WITH
PORTUGAL
DESTINATION ASIA
 FRIDAY
AUGUST 3, 1492 THREE
SHIPS SET OUT
 NOT ENOUGH FOODUNDERESTIMATED THE SIZE OF THE
OCEAN
 OCTOBER 12- THE PINTA SPOTTED
LAND
 SAN SALVADOR (THE BAHAMAS)
A HISTORIC MEETING

WELCOMED BY THE
TAINOS
 OFFERED THEM
PARROTS,
COTTON, THREAD,
& JAVELINS
 “FORCED” GIFTS
FOR THE QUEEN
HEADING HOME
 JANUARY
16, 1493
 SANTA MARIA HAD RUN
AGROUND
 BECAME GOVERNOR OF
HISPANOLA
 CAME BACK 6 MONTHS LATER
LATER VOYAGES
4
TRIPS
TO THE
AMERICAS
 NATIVES
COMPLAINED THE SPANISH
GOVERNMENT WAS HARSH & UNFAIR
 COLUMBUS LOST HIS
GOVERNORSHIP & PRESTIGE
 STILL THOUGHT HE REACHED THE
INDIES
 DIED A DISAPPOINTED MAN IN 1506
A NEW CONTINENT
 1499-
AMERIGO VESPUCCI MADE
2 VOYAGES TO THE CARRIBBEAN
 SUGGESTED THAT THIS WAS
NEW LAND “THE NEW WORLD”
 1507- FIRST MAP TO SHOW THE
NEW WORLD, NAMES AMERICA
COLUMBUS’S IMPACT
 THE
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
 BROUGHT PEANUTS, PINEAPPLES,
TOMATOES, COCOA, & POTATOES
TO EUROPE
NATIVE AMERICANS
DEVASTATED
 DISEASE-
SMALL POX,
TYPHUS, MEASLES
 EUROPEANS
BROUGHT WHEAT
& DOMESTICATED COWS &
HORSES, FIREARMS, WHEEL &
AXELS TO THE AMERICAS
ALSO CULTURE, LAWS,
LANGUAGE, & CUSTOMS
EUROPEANS GAIN WEALTH
 PORTUGAL
COMPLAINED TO THE
POPE
 1494 POPE ALEXANDER URGED
SPAIN & PORTUGAL TO SIGN THE
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
DIVIDED ALL THE LAND NOT
ALREADY CLAIMED BY OTHER
CHRISTIANS
LINE OF DEMARCATION
 SPAIN RULED WEST INCLUDING
THE AMERICAS
 PORTUGAL RULED EAST INCLUDING
BRAZIL, & SEA ROUTE AROUND
AFRICA
 BY 1500’S FRANCE, ENGLAND, & THE
NETHERLANDS BEGAN TO MOVE INTO
NORTH AMERICA

AFRICANS ENSLAVED
 PORTUGAL
& SPAIN ESTABLISHED
PLANTATIONS
PRODUCING CASH CROPS
SUGAR & PINEAPPLE REQUIRED
HUGE NUMBER OF WORKERS
WHO LABORED LONG HOURS
IN HOT CLIMATES
 SOLDIERS
KIDNAPPED NATIVE
AMERICANS & FORCED THEM TO
WORK
 NOT A RELIABLE WORKFORCE
 1517- FIRST AFRICANS ARRIVE
 SLAVES WERE REGARDED AS
PROPERTY