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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures

Highlights
America before Columbus Europe Looks Westward The Arrival of the English

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America before Columbus

The Peoples of the Precontact Americas

The Clovis People Archaeologists and Population Diversity The Archaic Period

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America before Columbus

North American Migrations

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America before Columbus

How the Early North Americans Lived

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America before Columbus

The Growth of Civilizations: The South

Incas Mayas Mexica

The Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan

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America before Columbus

The Civilizations of the North

Complex and Varied Civilizations
Hunting, gathering, fishing Cahokia

Mobile Societies

Tribal Cultures
Agricultural Revolution
Gender roles
Iroquois women
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Europe Looks Westward

Commerce and Nationalism

A Reawakening of Commerce Centralized Nation-States Prince Henry the Navigator

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Europe Looks Westward

Marco Polo leaves for the Far East

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Europe Looks Westward

Christopher Columbus
Columbuss First Voyage Religious Motives for Exploration Ferdinand Magellan

Christopher Columbus
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Europe Looks Westward

European Exploration and Conquest, 1492-1583

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Europe Looks Westward

The Conquistadores
Corts Conquers the Aztecs Brutality and Greed

Spanish America
Ordinances of Discovery Catholic Missions

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Europe Looks Westward

Spanish America
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Northern Outposts
St. Augustine (1565) Santa Fe (1609) Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Assimilation and accommodation
Pueblo Ruins in New Mexico
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Europe Looks Westward

Mexico, California, and Florida, 1600

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Europe Looks Westward

De Soto in North America

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Europe Looks Westward

The Empire at High Tide

Spains Vast Empire Rigid Royal Control A Collision of Cultures

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Europe Looks Westward

Biological and Cultural Exchanges

Increasing Levels of Exchange Demographic Catastrophe Deliberate Subjugation and Extermination New Crops and Agricultural Techniques A Complex Racial Hierarchy Varied Labor Systems

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Europe Looks Westward

Africa and America

Ghana and Mali Benin, Congo and Songhay Matrilineal Societies Growth of the African Slave Trade

1633 map of Atlantic

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Europe Looks Westward

Europe and West Africa in the Fifteenth Century

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The Arrival of the English

John Cabot

The Commercial Incentive

The Enclosure Movement Chartered Companies Mercantilism Richard Hakluyts Argument for Colonies

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The Arrival of the English

The Religious Incentive

Doctrine of Predestination The English Reformation Puritan Separatists Puritan Discontent

John Calvin
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The Arrival of the English

The English in Ireland

Subjugation of Ireland The Plantation Model

The French and the Dutch in America

Coureurs de Bois Henry Hudson New Amsterdam

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The Arrival of the English

The First English Settlements

The Spanish Armada Gilberts Expedition to Newfoundland

Roanoke
The First Roanoke Colony New Colonial Charters

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