amh 2010 chapter 1
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Chapter 1 lecture for LSSC's AMH 2010.TRANSCRIPT
Give Me Liberty!:An American history
Chapter 1 A New World
Table 1.1 Estimated Regional Populations:The Americas, ca.1500
Table 1.2 Estimated Regional Populations:The World, ca. 1500
The First Americans
The Settling of the Americas – main theory
A map of the probable routes by the first Americans.
Alternate theories:Europe,
Polynesia, Asia?
Map 1.2 Native ways of life, ca.1500
Indian Societies of the Americas
The First Americans
The First Americans
Mound Builders of the Mississippi River Valley
Cahokia – near St. Louis
The First AmericansWestern Indians
A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita
Chaco CanyonCliff dwellings
The First Americans•Indians of Eastern North America
The Village of Secoton
Map 1.2 Native ways of life, ca.1500
The First Americans
Native American Religion
A drawing by the artist John White showing Native Americans performing a religious ritual.`
The First Americans
Land and Property
A Catawba map
Indians fishing
The First Americans Gender Relations
Indian women planting crops
The First Americans
European Views of the Indians
English engraving of contact between Englishmen and Indians
Indian Freedom, European Freedom
Indian Freedom
A seventeenth-century engraving of an Indian village
Indian Freedom, European Freedom
Christian Liberty
Freedom and Authority
Liberty and Liberties
Public displays of submission and deference were expected in Europe in the 1600s; Visions of Freedom
Knights kneel before their king.
Map 1.3 The old world on the eve of American colonization, ca.1500
The Expansion of EuropeConfirmed New World arrivals before 1492:
Vikings – 1000 AD
Polynesians on the West Coast by 1400 AD
map of known Viking voyages
Viking longship
The Expansion of Europe
Chinese Power and Navigation
Chinese admiral Zheng He
Comparison of Chinese junk with Spanish caravel
map of known Chinese voyages in 1400
A recently discovered Chinese map dating to 1750s. The map claims to be based on an earlier map from 1418!
The Silk Road had existed for millennia. Europeans in the 1400s sought to reach China and its trade good for themselves.
The Silk Road
The Expansion of Europe
Portugal and West Africa
Portuguese map of West Africa map of Portuguese voyages
Map 1.3 The old world on the eve of American colonization, ca.1500
The Expansion of Europe
Freedom and Slavery in Africa
Benin warriors ca. 1500
Engraving of Benin City in the 1500s
Contact Columbus in the New World
Columbus’ Landfall, engraving from a 1493 pamphlet
a Spanish caravel of the type Columbus used
Case Study: Hispaniola and slavery
Encomienda systemNative rebellionPopulation collapseLabor need creates market for African slavery
Contact Exploration and Conquest
Elite Aztec jaguar warriors
Map of the Aztec empire in 1519
Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital
Map of the Aztec capital
Aztec art demonstrating ritual sacrifice
Images depicting the fierce fighting between the Aztecs and the Spanish and their Indian allies
Hernan Cortés, conquistador
Cortés receiving the tribute of conquered Aztecs
Cathedral of Mexico City A banner carried by the forces of Cortés
Spanish New World conquests
Contact The Demographic Disaster
The Columbian Exchange
Engraving from the Florentine Codex depicting the smallpox epidemic amongst the Aztecs
Table 1.1 Estimated Regional Populations:The Americas, ca.1500
The impact of disease in Mexico, 1518-1623
A humorous perspective on the Columbian Exchange.
Overview: The Columbian Exchange
Map 1.4 Voyages of Discovery
The Spanish Empire
Governing Spanish America
Colonists in Spanish America
Colonists and Indians
A Spanish galleon ca. 1600, the primary means of communication and transport between Spanish colonies
Four Racial Groups – This chart depicts different racial categories that defined social status in New Spain (Mexico) after the Conquest. The chart demonstrates that the impact of the Columbian Exchange was also felt in ethnic terms, as the mixing of Old and New World populations created new classes in the Americas. The social impact of these divisions can still be felt today.
The Spanish Empire
Justifications for Conquest
Spreading the Faith
Piety and Profit
A benign view of Spanish colonization
a Spanish mission to the Indians in the 1790s
The Spanish Empire
Las Casas’s Complaint
Reforming the Empire
Spanish conquistadores murdering
Map 1.5 Spanish Conquests and Explorations in The New World, 1500–1600
The Spanish Empire
Exploring North America
De Soto’s route through what is today the American southeast
The Spanish Empire
Spanish Florida
Spain in the Southwest
The Pueblo Revolt
Spanish presence in North America, 1500-1600
The French and Dutch Empires
French Colonization
New France and the Indians
Map 1.6 The New World-New France andNew Netherland, ca.)
the French help their native allies in combat, ca. 1613
French fur trapper and Jesuit Father Marquette greet the natives along Great Lakes
The French and Dutch Empires
The Dutch Empire
Dutch Freedom
A view of New Amsterdam, early 1600s
The seal of New Netherland, 1630
The French and Dutch Empires
Freedom in New Netherland
Settling New Netherland
New Netherland and the Indians
A map of the Western Hemisphere, ca. 1650