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The conquering of f ree p eople. New World Exploration. The Spanish. Conquistadors are soldiers under the command of the Spanish King. Their quest is to conquer land in the name of Spain and add wealth and glory to the Spanish Kingdom. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
NEW WORLD EXPLORATIONThe conquering of free people
The Spanish
Conquistadors are soldiers under the command of the Spanish King.
Their quest is to conquer land in the name of Spain and add wealth and glory to the Spanish Kingdom.
The Three goals of Spanish exploration are Gold, Glory, and God.
The Meaning of the Three G’s Gold= Find wealth Glory= conquer new land for SPAIN. God= convert all natives to
Christianity, Catholic Christians
Cortez
Cortez was a military man. He assembled an invasion force He left Cuba with his men to discover
the main land source of gold that had been found in Cuba
He discovers the Aztecs upon arrival in what is now Mexico
The Fateful MeetingWho drew this picture?
Death and Destruction
Cortez did not wish to become friends
He had come to conquer He made his way to Tenochtitlan, the
Aztec capital. There he kidnapped the king
Montezuma. He used his few men to hold off
5,ooo aztec warriors in an epic battle.
The Aztec were conquered
What happened next?
Cortez sets up a colony with himself as governor.
He starts shipping Aztec gold and silver back to Spain
He destroys the Aztec temples and replaces them with Catholic churches.
The Europeans learn about chocolate!
Francisco Pizarro
After the defeat of the Aztecs, Francisco Pizarro marches to South America to conquer the great Incan Empire.
He captures the King at Cuzco and has him put to death. He establishes a colony for Spain and builds a city called Lima.
Conquest of the Inca
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Pizarro
Magellan
The World Is Round!
By the time Magellan took a fleet of ships on a trip around the world, most people accepted that the world was round and that Columbus was wrong. Columbus never found Asia.
Although Magellan did not survive his journey, his voyage proved that the world’s oceans are connected, the world was round, and that Columbus was wrong.
The other Spaniards
Other Spanish explorers set off to explore the North American continent
De Soto, Coronado, and Ponce de Leon, explored what today is the southern United States.
Francisco Balboa discovered the Panama Isthmus and the Pacific Ocean
What about the English?
Henry Hudson looks for a North West Passage. That is a northern route around the Americas to Asia. He never found it. He did find the Hudson bay.
John Cabot explores the East Coast of North America
Other English
Sir Francis Drake is hired by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe like Magellan.
So What?
What were the results of Exploration? 1. Technology spread through
Cultural Diffusion. 2. The Slave Trade begins across
the Atlantic 3. European nations like Spain
and England become Empires and native civilizations die
4. The world is proven to be much larger than previously thought