Americas Discover Columbus: The Geography of Latin American History

James Hayes-Bohanan, Ph.D.

paxmundo.orgwebhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh

GEOG 520: The Geography Behind History

Voyages

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

LatinSpokenHere?

Global Atmospheric Circulation Model

Seasonal Pressure and Precipitation Patterns

Globalization in the Aztec Age

Mexico City

Texcoco

Tenochtitlán

www.semarnat.gob.mx

Teotihuacán

www.world-mysteries.com

San Pedro Cholulawww.crystalinks.com/mexico.html

Cholula

Mexico City

September 1985, Magnitude 8.1 quake centered in the subduction zone off Acapulco killed more than 4,000 people in Mexico City, more than 300 kilometers away.

earthquake.usgs.gov

Complexity• Water management

food surpluses• Nobles and priests• State-organized military• Cities with secondary and

tertiary sectors• Ceremonial metals• Monumental architecture• Systematic record

keeping

Blouet & Blouet pp. 56-57

www.peru-explorer.com

• Water management food surpluses surplus labor

• Nobles and priests• State-organized military• Cities with secondary and

tertiary sectors• Ceremonial metals• Monumental architecture• Systematic record keeping

SophisticationShifting cultivation among tropical forest farmers(Blouet & Blouet fig. 3.3)

AGROFORESTRY

MILPA

Modernization

Lee Clockman

May 4, 1493

http://es.encarta.msn.com

Earth at Night

NASA.GOV

Latin America at Night

NASA.GOV

Captaincies

Dr. Michele LevyNorth Carolina A&T Univ.

Columbian Exchange

The Dream of Christopher Columbus1959, Salvador Dalí

PLANTS ANIMALS PEOPLE DISEASES MINERAL WEALTH RAW MATERIALS MANUFACTURES TECHNOLOGY

after Blouet & Blouet, p. 74

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