1. European Exploration and Settlement: 1492-1607

2. European Ideas and Eventsimpacting North America • 1096- Crusades begin • 1271- Marco Polo explores China • Trade, plague ends feudalism, leads to • Renaissance developments 1. rise of the city- banking, joint stock company, trade 2. Nation-State supplants the Church 3. Ideals of Renaissance= explorer 4. New inventions, technology

4. Marco Polo Italian Explorer 1254-1324

6. Main Trade Routes: 500-1500

7. Anxious investors wait for news about the South Sea Company, a joint stock company formed in London in 1711. Joint stock companies are a form of partnership in which each member, or stockholder, is financially responsible for the acts of the company.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

12. Spain, 1492 After forcing many Jews to be baptized and then referring to them as "marranos" (i.e.  swine), and after an Inquisition in which some 700 marranos were burnt at the stake for showing signs of "Jewish" taint, Spain expels all Jews from the country.

15. Zhu Di’s Map of the World, circa 1405

16. ShanhaiYudiQuantu Map, circa 1425

18. The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus

28. Effects of the Columbus Voyages • America’s land led to end of feudalism • Gold creates inflation – destabilizes • European economy • Political power shifts to Spain • Treaty of Tordesillas (1492)

30. Old World to New World New World to Old World

36. 1494

39. Hernan Cortes Conquers Aztecs 1519-1521

41. Cortes’ Conquests,1519-1521

44. Missions in North America Red= Spanish Yellow= French