warm-up: what does “old world” and “new world” mean to you?
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Warm-Up:
What does “Old World” and “New World” mean to you?
Columbian Exchange Activity
In groups, list the items you were given
Decide which items originated in the “Old World” and which items originated in the “New World”
Carefully tape the items on the correct side of the world map…and let’s see who did the best!!
Glue in your Columbian Exchange list
Warm-up: Write 5 characteristics you think a Conquistador had to have
Think-Pair-Share Discuss your characteristics with
1 partner. Write down characteristics your partner has that you don’t but that you AGREE with.
2 Worlds Collide:The Texas Native Americans meet
the Spanish Conquistador
The armor
Horses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK9iqVGYO6Q&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Class Discussion You are a Native American of Texas. You just saw the Spanish land.
› You have never seen ships with sails, horses, pigs, cattle, metal, guns, cannons before.
› You have never seen such beings: tall, pale, hairy men
› You have never heard Spanish. What would you have thought?
Friend or enemy?
Hernando Cortes
Goals To find gold To conquer
the Aztecs
Events Landed in present day Mexico in1519 Sank ships so soldiers could not retreat
› Victory at any cost! Attacked and conquered the Aztecs in
1521 Cortes built a new city on the ruins of
Aztec capital Tenochtitlan› This became the capital of New Spain
(later Mexico City)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nS6MpVbB_g&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Tenochtitlan: Aztec Capital
Tenochtitlan
Aztec Temple
Issues
Faced overwhelming odds Aztecs ruled over a vast
area and millions of people
Did not know the land or language
Consequences
Increased Spanish exploration of the New World
New Spain became the starting point for exploration
Self Interest or Common Good
You decideWarm-Up: Write WHY you decided that Cortez was acting in self interest or for the common good
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
Goals Searching for a northern waterway
to the Pacific Ocean
Events
Set sail in 1519 Sailed along the Gulf Coast First known European to see
the Texas Coast (but there is no evidence Pineda entered Texas)
Route to Texas: Spain to Jamaica to Florida to Gulf of Mexico
Issues
There were NO maps available to him
Consequences
First map of the Gulf of Mexico and the Texas coast
Their voyage increased Spanish interest in the region
Mapping the Gulf Coast Used his observations and a
simple compass
How did he do?
Compare Pineda’s map to satellite photo of Gulf Coast .
Self Interest or Common Good?
You decide!
To what is Cabeza de Vaca referring?
"Cows come this far and I have seen them three times and have eaten of them and I think they are about the size of those of Spain. They have small horns, like Moorish cattle, and very long hair, wooly like a rug. Some are dark brown and others black and in my opinion they have better and richer flesh than those from here [Spain?]. From those that are not as large the Indians make robes to cover themselves and from the large ones they make shoes and round shields.”
-Cabeza de Vaca
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Goals To find gold
and riches(He was a part of Narvaez’s voyage)
Events Washed ashore in Florida
They got lost in the swamps
They then built boats that shipwrecked near today’s Galveston
Events The Karankawa found the struggling
explorers and took them in and shared their small amount of food and clothes› Most of the Spaniards died that winter› Those who lived became their captives
Cabeza de Vaca worked as a servant, trader, and healer
Traveled the Gulf Coast gathering sea shells and mesquite beans to trade for animal skins
Met 3 other Spanish explorers being held as slaves and finally escaped.
The 4 men traveled from Native village to village in search of New Spain
IssuesIn Florida: Got lost in the swamps Lacked food and supplies and
attacked by Native AmericansIn Texas: Shipwrecked near present day
Galveston No clothes, food, or supplies Lost and taken captive by Native
Americans
8 years after the shipwreck he met up with Spanish soldiers and was taken to New Spain› In 1542 Cabeza
de Vaca published a book about his travels
Consequences
Encouraged others to travel to Texas, including Coronado
He was sympathetic to Native Americans and disagreed with the Spanish treatment of them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXPO-uQXv8&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Self Interest or Common Good?
You decide!
Fill in the word bubble. What was each man thinking?