the columbian exchange and colonizing the americas

The Columbian Exchange and Colonizing the

AmericasMaps and Charts

The World Known to Europe, 1492

Europe, Africa, and Southwestern Asia in 1500

Trade Routes with the East

West Africa and the Mediterranean in the Fifteenth Century (p. 21)

Orbis Typus Universalis (p. 4) John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.

Native American Worlds

The First Americans

The Mayas and the Aztecs

The Indians of the North

Map First Migration.jpg

The First Discoverers of America

Peopling of the Americas

The Ice Age and the Settling of the Americas (p. 8)

Map Pre-Columbian Indians.jpg

Major Mesoamerican Cultures, c. 1000 b.c.–a.d. 1519

Major Andean Cultures, 900 b.c.–a.d. 1432

Map Pre-Columbian Indians in North

America.jpg

North American Indian Peoples at the Time of First Contact with Europeans

Native American Peoples, 1492 (p. 10)

Locations of Selected Native American Peoples, a.d. 1500

Europe Encounters Africa and the Americas, 1450-1550

The RenaissanceWest African Society and SlaveryEurope Reaches the AmericasThe Spanish Conquest

The Columbian Exchange (p. 28)

Major Transatlantic Explorations, 1000–1587

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Principle Voyages of Discovery

The Eurasian Trade System and European Maritime Ventures, 1500 (p. 23)

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Principal Early Spanish Explorations and Conquests

The Spanish Conquest of the Great Indian Civilizations (p. 25)

The Spanish and Portuguese and Empires

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Map Spanish and Portuguese

Explorations.jpg

Spain’s North American Frontier, 1542-1823

Balboa with Cross

Coronado’s March

Indians worship column

Indians Massacre Priests

The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England

The Protestant MovementThe Dutch and the English

Challenge SpainThe Social Causes of English

Colonization

Map English, French and Dutch Explorations.jpg

French landing in the New World

Major Religions in Europe, c. 1560

Religious Diversity in Europe, 1600 (p. 32)

The Yearly Rhythm of Rural Life and Death (p. 16)

The Great Price Inflation and Living Standards in Europe (p. 34)

Structure of English Society, 1688

Decline in Real Wages in England, 1500–1700

European Imperial Claims and Settlements in Eastern North America, 1565–1625

Bartholomew Gosnold Trading with Wampanoag Indians at Martha’s Vineyard (1602)