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An Introductory Course on American Studies Lecture 2:  The American Founding  Myth and  the Puritan Spirit Age of “Discovery” 1462: Portuguese settlement on Cape Verde Is. 1488: Bartholomew Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope 1492: Columbus reaches America 1497: John Cabot explores North American coast 1498: Vasco da Gama reaches India by sea 1500: Pedro Cabral explores Brazil 1513: Balboa crosses Panama to discover the Pacific 1519-21: Hernando Cortez conquers Mexico 1519-22: Magellan circumnavigates the globe 1530-32: Francisco Pizarro conquers Peru Time Marks: 1492: Columbus’ “Discovery” of North America 1607: John Smith’s arrival in Virginia 1620: “Mayflower” to Plymouth 1630: the first Great Migration (20000 in next 10 years) 1637: Pequo War against the Indians 1640: The Bay Psalm Book So lamentable was our scarcity that we were constrained to eat dogs, cats, rats, snakes, toadstools, horsehides, and what not. One man, out of the misery he endured, killing his wife, powdered her up to eat her, for which he was burned. Many besides fed on the corpses of dead men, and one who had gotten insatiable out of custom to that food could not be restrained until such time as he was executed for it. (Journals of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1624) The land full of rich, the people easilie wonne, Whose gaines shalbe the knowledge of our faith And ours such riches as the country hath. (an annonymous poem) New World scenes John Smith (1580-1631): explorer, adventurer and founder of Virginia Colony; author of A True Relation of Virginia (1608); William Bradford (1590-1657): onboard Mayflower; governor since 1622; author of Of Plymouth Plantation started 1630 thru 1647; Names Important John Cotton (1548-1652): New England Puritan preacher; author of God’s Promise to His Plantation