Exploration and Jamestown

explored the world for Spain, Glory.

- The gold, silver and cash crops made Spain the wealthiest nation in Europe throughout the 1500's

• Conquistadores

  
  

• Vasco Da Gama

• Bartholomew Dias (1488)

• Christopher Columbus

was the first explorer to reach the tip of the American continent. - (1488) named it the Cape of Good Hope.

- He did not continue to India because his men untidied

• Conquistadors

• Bartholomew Dias

• Jamestown

• Imperialism

explored what he called "the new world" and was the first to popularize the idea that America was a separate continent.

-America gets its name from Amerigo

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Vasco da Gama

• Virginia Company of London

• The Starving Time

First to sail around the tip of Africa and reach India

- He discovered enough splice and goods to cover the cost of the Trip sixty times over.

• Bartholomew Dias

• Conquistadors

• Vasco da Gama

he believed India could be reached by sea from the west.

- He reached the Bahamas other Caribbean island (West Indies) believing he had reached the islands of Asia

• First Anglo - Powhatan War

• Second Anglo - Powhatan War

• Christopher Columbus

• Virginia Company of Landon

a company founded to establish an English trade colony in lands discovered by Raleigh, now called Virginia.

-It was governed by a president who, in 1606, was appointed by the King James I.

- The king declared that all inhabitants of the colony will have the same rights as English born citizens.

A drought reduced the amount of available corn and chief Powhatan declared he would no longer share with the English and he moved their camp.

- The colonist population had grown to over 400 but they still focused on looking for gold rather than planting their own crops.

- Only 60 colonists survived.

a fresh shipment of colonist arrived and began a brutal military campaign against the natives.

-the war continued until a peace settlement was made offering Pocahontas in marriage to colonist John Rolfe.

• First Anglo - Powhatan War

• Second Anglo - Powhatan War

• Imperialism

• Jamestown

forming an Empire by conquering new lands. European nations soon fought to have the most numerous colonies.

was the first permanent English colony in the new world and it was run by the Virginia company of London.

- located on the James River it was easy to defend but the damp air or the river land made disease common.

- of the initial 105 settlers only 32 survived