Valencia M.

Chapter One

New World Encounters

Paleo-Indians were the first Human Beings to set foot on a vast, uninhabited continent. The members of these small migrating groups stopped hosting a number of communicative diseases.(Smallpox, Measles) The physical isolation of the various bands may have protected them from the spread of contagious disease. The people of the Great Plain did not obtain horses until the Spanish introduced them in 1587.The Anasazi made canals that carried water long distances and a system connecting Chaco Canyon by road to move more than 70 outlying Villages. During the Columbian Exchange, Eurpeans exposed the indian to several new fatal disease. The first Europeans to reach the west African coast by sailing were the Portugues for the search of gold and slaves. In the tenth century Norsemne or Vikings(Scandinavian Seafarers) established settlements in the new world.

Conquistadores-
men eager for personal glory and material Grain.
Nina,Pinta,Nao Santa Maria-
Boats that Columbus traveled on.
Treaty of Tordesillas-
Divided the entire world along a line located 270 leagues west of the line belonged to spain.(1494)
Encomienda System-
Made the colonizers more dependent on the King, for it was he who legitimized their title.
Protestant Reformation-
By the end of the sixteenth century, However conditions within England Had changed dramatically.
Predestination-
Common sense suggests that such a bleak bleak doctrine might lead to fatalism or hedonism.

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