The Columbian Exchange and Its Consequences

Effects of the First Contact

Effects of the First Contact

Resolved: Columbus Day should remain a national holiday in the US

Meanwhile, back in Europe… All Heaven is Breaking Loose!

Protestant Reformation 1492 -- W. Europe = Catholic 1517 -- Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

attacked indulgences saved by faith alone “priesthood of all believers” Result conflict & civil war

Calvinism Predestination strict morality hard work

Protestantism in England Henry VIII = “defender of the faith” ....BUT wife #1 (Catherine of Aragon) can’t give him male heir Anne Boleyn Elizabeth I Henry forms Anglican Church (Protestant)

English attempts at Empire Began under Queen Elizabeth I Raleigh’s “Lost Colony”

100 colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to Roanoke Island Virginia Dare = 1st English child born in New World Colony mysteriously disappeared