CHAPTER 2 Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas

TERMS
Protestant Reformation
justification by faith
predestination
Tainos
The Great Dying
Columbian Exchange
The Middle Passage
Price revolution

GEOGRAPHY ITEMS:
Indian Ocean (east of Africa, south of Asia)
West Indies (islands south of Florida)
Geneva
Peru
Niger River
Roanoke Island

American Stories: Old World Sojourners Mingle with New World

Inhabitants.

I. Breaching The Atlantic

a. The Columbian Voyages

b. Religious Conflict during the Era of Reconnaissance

II. The Spanish Conquest of America

a. Carribean experiments

b. The Conquistadors’ Onslaught at Tenochtitlan

c. The Great Dying

d. The Columbian Exchange

 e. Silver, sugar, and their Consequences

f. Spain’s Northern frontier

III. England looks West

a. England Challenges Spain

b. The Westward Fever

c. Anticipating North America

IV. African Bondage

a. The Slave Trade

b. The Middle Passage

c. Slavery in Early Spanish