Fielding -- can't watch the youtube video ... it's blocked.
The Crusades... it always starts with the Crusades
The Crusades... it always starts with the Crusades
- started in the 1090's
- Knights cam into contact with new cultures
- They were introduced to spices that they brought back to the Europeans
- Desire was formed for new cheap ways to get to said spices
- Italy
- Portugal
- Spain
Unit 1 (1491-1607)
1491- snapshot of america before european contact
1607 - founding of Jamestown , first successful English colony
Funfact- within the first 100 years of european invasion 90% of the natives had died
Homework: Read A Patriot's History of the United States (1-15) and summarize the differences and similarities between the English, French, and Spanish ways of colonization.
Differences: reasons for colonizing, interaction with Natives, amount of control the homeland had on the colonies
The English went to America originally to find a passage to China for spices and herbs. At first they tried to play nice with the Native population. They traded ideas and technologies with them. After discovering America they truly wanted to create a colony and focused their efforts on forming a larger more productive colony. England was overpopulated and many of it's citizens wanted to leave to escape religious persecution.
Originally the French wanted to colonize further South, but there they ran into the powerful Spain. So instead the French went North. It was very cold which discouraged quite a few settlers from coming over. Unlike the English, the settlers were in a pretty good position back home so they did not feel the need to move. This resulted in the area being much less populated. The settlers that did come over, however, soon found out that the Natives had expensive furs that they could trade for. Because they needed the natives on happy grounds for trading the French settlers treated them nicely and tried not to encroach upon the Natives' land.
The Spanish intermixed with the native population creating a whole new culture that was neither Spanish nor Native. This new culture is what we call Latino today. The Spanish crown was more focused on getting all of the gold and riches out of the mountains and into their coffers than actually forming large colonies.
Differences: reasons for colonizing, interaction with Natives, amount of control the homeland had on the colonies
The English went to America originally to find a passage to China for spices and herbs. At first they tried to play nice with the Native population. They traded ideas and technologies with them. After discovering America they truly wanted to create a colony and focused their efforts on forming a larger more productive colony. England was overpopulated and many of it's citizens wanted to leave to escape religious persecution.
Originally the French wanted to colonize further South, but there they ran into the powerful Spain. So instead the French went North. It was very cold which discouraged quite a few settlers from coming over. Unlike the English, the settlers were in a pretty good position back home so they did not feel the need to move. This resulted in the area being much less populated. The settlers that did come over, however, soon found out that the Natives had expensive furs that they could trade for. Because they needed the natives on happy grounds for trading the French settlers treated them nicely and tried not to encroach upon the Natives' land.
The Spanish intermixed with the native population creating a whole new culture that was neither Spanish nor Native. This new culture is what we call Latino today. The Spanish crown was more focused on getting all of the gold and riches out of the mountains and into their coffers than actually forming large colonies.
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