This lesson plan was done during my student teaching and had a worksheet that students did the day before and was more of a correcting/ lecture. It also has a Slide show to go with it, but I'll figure that out later...
Age of Exploration: Conquistadors and Settlement of the
Americas
Objectives: Students will learn the story of the Conquest of
the Americas, focusing mainly on the Spanish Conquistadors.
State standard #2: Students
will understand the transformation of cultures during the Renaissance
(Exploration) and the impact of this transformation on modern times.
Lesson: Students will have completed a worksheet from the
book giving them the scaffolding for the lesson; this will also allow students
to participate in a more interactive teaching environment. The outline of the
lecture comes from the work sheet it is a way of “Checking” the worksheet.
Columbus brought 1000 settlers to Hispaniola
The main reason Spain continued to explore West was the Line
of Demarcation dividing the world between Spain and Portugal for defeating the
Muslims in the Reconquesta.
Spain
complained that Portugal had the spice Islands …
Conquistadors came to conquer the new world
Hernamo Cortes came to what is today Mexico and found the
Aztecs
Indigenous accounts, however, were
documented as early as 1528. Written in the native tongue of Nahuatl, the
Sahugan natives of the Aztec empire described eight omens that were believed to
have occurred 10 years prior to the arrival of the Spanish from the Gulf of
Mexico. The eight omens included: Aztec empire on the eve of the Spanish
Invasion
- fire falling from the sky
- fire consuming the temple of Huitzilopochtli,
- a lightning bolt destroying the straw temple of Xiuhtecuhtli,
- the appearance of streaking fire across the oceans,
- the “boiling,” and water flooding, of a lake nearby Tenochtitlan,
- a woman weeping in the middle of the night for them to flee while they could
- a two headed man running through the streets
- Montezuma saw images of fighting men in a mirror on his bird's head
The Aztecs beveled him to be the
God Quetzalcoatl whom the clamed would come from the east on white clouds
(sails) power (guns and horses).
Emperor Montezuma sends gifts (to
keep off a vengeful god) opens Tenochtitlan to him …
Cortes astonished at the great city
but appalled by the human sacrifice to the gods… destroys them in 2 years….
The Inca Atahualpa the last Inca King Conquered by Francisco
Pizarro on his search for the city of Gold
Came over to become a noble went on 6 exhibitions starting in Panama wild
goose chase No regard for the greatness of the Inca People and accomplishments
Founded
Lema the Capital of Peru on the Pacific Cost
Two colonies New Spain (Mexico) and Peru (South America)
People of Spanish descents born in Americas were known as
Creoles (not equal to Spaniards born in Span) mixing of Spanish and Natives
were Mestozos and had important Jobs…
Most Natives where Enslaved and forced to mine the Gold and harvest
the crops the could be forced to haul lodes over 300lbs
Mission System: Jesuits and other monks that came to convert
natives etc where given land known as missions these missions where to convert
the natives build schools and insure the influence of the Spanish… in
California they had lots of land with cattle, the cattle would destroy any
natural resources that the natives needed forcing them to come to the
missions….
Disease was the major cause of death among the Native
Americans population after Europeans arrived they did not have an immunity
built up most Europeans had small pox as a child but Natives had not. The
Native population dropped from 25 million to under 3 million
The Dutch after Hudson found the Hudson River established a colony
known as New Netherlands with the port city of New Amsterdam (NYC)
To the North France established its fur trading colony of
New France in present day Canada it stayed small only reaching about 3,000 settlers
The English started James town in Virginias named after the Virgin
Queen Elizabeth(Never Married) they started to grow corps sense there was no
gold in the north these farms where small because of cool climate and in the
South they where large and Called
plantations:
Plantations
are a continuation of the Futile Manor system…
English
colonies remained part of England till 1776 and relied on trade with Europe to
survive …
Spain and Portugal grow rich from their colonies…
Why did people set up colonies in the New World…?
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