Overview of Unit One

western europe and the new world

exploration, settlement, and colonization

chapters 1-3: exploration to colonization

• native americans

• cultural features → regions and tribes

• "columbian/atlantic exchange"; NW and OW

• discovery and exploration of the New World

• facts + reasoning (3 Gs)

• impact and consequences; pros and cons

• european settlement of new world

• spanish, french, dutch

• english → reasons for colonization

• 1607 → 13 colonies

english colonization

• first settlements

• roanoke: england's "lost colony"

• jamestown

• plymouth

• massachusetts

13 colonies

interactions with native americans

slavery → west indies and "slave codes"

age of exploration

top 10 reasons for exploration:

1. God (spreading religion)

2. Glory

3. Gold (wealth)

4. faster trading routes

5. abundance of natural resources - good water, fertile soil

6. settlers fleeing persecution

7. expansion of empires; new colonies - claiming land, sending settlers to live

8. improved technologies (better ships, compasses, etc.)

9. employment

10. escaping overpopulation