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I Marco Polo - Italian adventurer and travelled China for 20 years from 1275-1295. He is regarded as an indirect discoverer of the New World because of his book that talked about the treasures of the East and it stimulated European desires to find a cheaper route to trade with China. Francisco Pizarro - explored South America and crushed the Incans of Peru in 1532, got lots of treasure Juan Ponce de Leon- Ventured into Florida in 1513 and 1521, seeking gold and not the mythical fountain of youth and was killed by an Indian arrow. Conquistadors - Spanish explorers in service of God and in search of gold and glory in the New World.

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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings August 15th, 2012: Reading Assignment (Textbook Pgs. 6; 13-15; 24-35) Map 1.1 (Pg. 6) 25,000 years, ppl cross Bering land bridge (low water levels, Ice Age) from Eurasia to N. America ?Na. Americans? dispersed southward Columbus Comes upon a New World (Pgs. 13-14) October 12th, 1492 -> arrive at Bahamas Columbus: ?most successful failure? Thought America was the Indies, thus calling the Na. Americans ?Indians? When Worlds Collide (Pgs. 14-15) Columbus Exchange: New World -> Old World: Gold, Silver; corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans vanilla, chocolate; syphilis Old World -> New World: Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee; horses, cows, pigs; small pox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, scarlet fever

The Planting of English America

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England?s Imperial Stirrings By the year 1607, Central and South America was largely controlled by Spain or Portugal, but North America was mostly unclaimed. In North America, there were few Europeans. Spain had established Santa Fe. France had established Quebec. Britain had just established Jamestown, and it was struggling. In the 1500s, Britain had made only feeble efforts to colonize America. There was a rash of problems hinging on a mix of religion and politics? King Henry VIII?had broken with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s, brining the Protestant Reformation to England and thus creating religious division. When Elizabeth I became queen, England moved decidedly in the Protestant direction. This also meant Catholic Spain was an immediate rival.

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Anne Hutchinson -a deeply religious member of the Boston Congregation, who publicly criticized the clergy for judging the prospective church members on the Basis of ?good works,? a Catholic standard from salvation that Protestants had criticized the Reformation. -She undermined the clergy?s spiritual authority over the people -She led other women in discussions of ministers? sermons, and asserted her own opinions by including men in the meetings. Roger Williams -A separatist minister who arrived to the New England colonies in 1631. He aroused elite anxieties by advocating the complete separation of the Church and State, and religious toleration. James Oglethorpe -Moved to Georgia, and lived there for 10 yrs, where he attempted to foster a religiously tolerant/ slave-free colony.

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