http://streaming.factsonfile.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=14950&xtid=39999&loid=61916

http://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/hss/hss_armesto_theworld/interactive_maps/armesto_maps/ch_15-7/

“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires an explanation.”

• It all starts here on the Iberian Peninsula – why?

• Portugal– Plunder– Prince Henry…– Mediterranean import..?– Muslim power– On to India…1489

“…did not FIND a new world but CREATED a new world”

• Spain’s Reconquista 1492• The story…• Reknit the seams of

Pangaea• Globalization:

doc.19.1• America

EMPIRE BUILDING

The Portuguese

• Treaty of Tordesillas and Line of Demarcation• Vasco da Gama (map)• A commercial network: trade goods…

Conquistadores• Hernando Cortes• Aztecs• Broken spears • "Account of Alva

Ixtlilxochiltl" (1519)

• Pizarro• Incas• de las Casas

Iberian Empires: “better trained troops and technological advantage with weapons but advantage was biological not technological.”

Portuguese Spanish

Columbian Exchange