AGE OF DISCOVERY1394-1600Europeans had developed a taste for Eastern goods.

Trade centers like Genoa, Pisa and Venice flourished

Overland route was slow and difficult.

PORTUGALPrince Henry the NavigatorSlave trade startedSugar Plantations in Canary Islands.

Vasco da Gama the first to India via ocean.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUSSails for Spain in 1492Three ships

Two are caravelsFerdinand and IsabellaConvinced Earth is a sphereGrossly underestimates distance to Asia

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUSSan SalvadorReturned with 7 nativesAdmiral of the Ocean Sea

TREATY OF TORDESILLAS 1494Between Spain and Portugal

Line drawn on the map by the Pope.

Unsure of Geography

FERDINAND MAGELLAN First to circumnavigate the globe.

CC was wrong New World is not Asia.

New World becomes its own destination

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGETransatlantic trade of goods, people and ideas that continues to this day.

Who does the Columbian Exchange favor?

SPANISH CONQUEST1519 Cortes into MexicoPizzarro into Peru

GodGoldGlory

PEOPLEAll colonies in the western hemisphere are shaped by race and ethnicity.

All men are not equal.

PEOPLEPeninsulares: 1-2%

Creoles:1-2 %

Mestizos: 4-5%

PEOPLEIndian population falls by 90% by 1570.

African slaves would be necessary.

1565 St. Augustine first permanent settlement in US.