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America Before Columbus The Civilizations of the South
Incan and Aztec Empires
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America Before Columbus The Civilizations of the North
Hunting and
Gathering
How the Early North Americans Lived
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America Before Columbus The Civilizations of the North
Hunting and Gathering Cahokia
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Secotan Village, 1585 (Library of Congress)
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America Before Columbus The Civilizations of the North
Hunting and Gathering Cahokia Gender Relations
Iroquois Women
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Europe Looks Westward Commerce and Nationalism
European Population Growth
Marco Polo Leaves for the Far East
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Europe Looks Westward Commerce and Nationalism
European Population Growth Portuguese Exploration
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Europe Looks Westward Christopher Columbus
Columbus’s First Voyage
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“Following the Light of the Sun, we left the Old World.”
-Christopher Columbus
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Europe Looks Westward Christopher Columbus
Columbus’s First Voyage Circumnavigation of the Globe
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“The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the
church.” -Ferdinand Magellan
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Europe Looks Westward The Spanish Empire
“Conquistadores”
European Exploration and Conquest, 1492-1583
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Europe Looks Westward Northern Outposts
St. Augustine and
Santa Fe
St. Augustine - Promontory of Florida, 1565 (Library of Congress)
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Europe Looks Westward Northern Outposts
St. Augustine and Santa Fe Assimilation and Accommodation
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Europe Looks Westward Biological and Cultural
Exchanges Beneficial and
Catastrophic
Exchanges
Spanish America
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Europe Looks Westward Biological and Cultural Exchanges
Beneficial and Catastrophic
Exchanges Deliberate
Subjugation and
Extermination
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De Soto in North America
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Europe Looks Westward Biological and Cultural Exchanges
Beneficial and Catastrophic Exchanges Deliberate Subjugation and Extermination New World Crops
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Europe Looks Westward Biological and Cultural Exchanges
Beneficial and Catastrophic Exchanges Deliberate Subjugation and Extermination New World Crops Coercive Wage System
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Europe Looks Westward Africa and America
Trade States of West Africa
Map of Africa and the Americas (Library of Congress)
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Europe Looks Westward Africa and America
Trade States of West Africa Matrilineal Societies
Map of Africa and the Americas (Library of Congress)
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Europe Looks Westward Africa and America
Trade States of West Africa Matrilineal Societies African Slavery
Map of Africa and the Americas (Library of Congress)
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Europe Looks Westward Africa and America
Trade States of West Africa Matrilineal Societies African Slavery Slavery and the Slave
Trade
Map of Africa and the Americas (Library of Congress)
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The Arrival of the English Incentives for Colonization
Scarce Land
British East India Ship Roster, London, 1766 (Library of Congress)
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The Arrival of the English Incentives for Colonization
Scarce Land Mercantilism
British East India Ship Roster, London, 1766 (Library of Congress)
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The Arrival of the English Incentives for Colonization
Scarce Land Mercantilism Religious Motives for
Colonization
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John Calvin (Portrait Gallery)
“Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration.”
– John Calvin
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The Arrival of the English Incentives for Colonization
Scarce Land Mercantilism Religious Motives for
Colonization The English Reformation
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Queen Elizabeth I (Portrait Gallery)
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The Arrival of the English Incentives for Colonization
Scarce Land Mercantilism Religious Motives for Colonization The English Reformation Puritan Separatists
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The Arrival of the English Incentives for Colonization
Scarce Land Mercantilism Religious Motives for Colonization The English Reformation Puritan Separatists Lessons of Irish Colonization
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The Arrival of the English The French and the Dutch in America
Disproportionate French Influence
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The Arrival of the English The French and the Dutch in America
Disproportionate French Influence New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam Preacher in Period Dress (Library of Congress)
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The Arrival of the English The First English Settlements
The Spanish Armada Gilbert and Raleigh Failed Colony of Roanoke
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Debating the Past:
The American Population Before Columbus
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America in the World:
The Atlantic Context of Early American History
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