Do Now Activity (Fri. Sept. 3rd)

European Exploration & Colonization – Day #1

(1670-1720)

Essential Question

• In your opinion, are the early European travelers colonists or invaders? Explain why you believe this.– I guess it really depends on who’s view you look at

the situation from, right?– So pick a side and explain!

Columbus's Death and Burial

• Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain, on May 20, 1506, at the age of 54. He had suffered through a long terminal illness that first showed symptoms on his third voyage eight years before.

• According to his son Fernando, the cause of death was "gout." But in those days, gout was a catchall diagnosis for anything that caused joint pain. Recent research indicates that the most likely cause of death was Reiter's Syndrome, a rare tropical disease.

The Columbian Exchange:Smallpox & the Slave Trade begin

The Columbian Exchange: The Impact of European Settlement

• Really America AFTER Columbus!• History books traditionally depict the pre-

Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn't exactly a "New World," but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals—and disease. In the first 100 years of contact, entire civilizations were wiped out and the landscape was changed forever.

Revisiting the Essential Question

• So…in your opinion, are the early European travelers colonists or invaders? Why?– It does depend on who’s view you look at the

situation from, right?– So pick a side and explain!– Keep this thought in mind as we explore this topic

further…