New Worlds For All
“New Worlds for All”
europeans colonized a “new world” in north america
extracted resources
eventually made new “neo-european” colonial societies
columbian exchange and colonialism transformed north america
especially with trade and diseases
remade native environments, economies, societies, and politics
a “native new world”, often before significant european settlement
Spanish Colonies in North America, 1530 - 1625
a few permanent outposts north of Mexico
small, isolated from centers of power
Europe Invades North America, Late 16th Century
spains rival emerge, mid-late 1500s
first, resource extraction
fishing/whaling
trade with native people
piracy against spain
later, settler colonialism
gradual rise of permanent european settlements
seizing native land, displacing native people
New Worlds For All
“New Worlds for All”
europeans colonized a “new world” in north america
extracted resources
eventually made new “neo-european” colonial societies
columbian exchange and colonialism transformed north america
especially with trade and diseases
remade native environments, economies, societies, and politics
a “native new world”, often before significant european settlement
Spanish Colonies in North America, 1530 - 1625
a few permanent outposts north of Mexico
small, isolated from centers of power
Europe Invades North America, Late 16th Century
spains rival emerge, mid-late 1500s
first, resource extraction
fishing/whaling
trade with native people
piracy against spain
later, settler colonialism
gradual rise of permanent european settlements
seizing native land, displacing native people