When Worlds Collide, 1492-1500
The Expansion of Europe
European Communities
The Merchant Class and the Renaissance
The New Monarchies
Portuguese Explorations
Columbus Reaches the Americas
The Spanish in the Americas
The Invasion of America
The Destruction of the Indies
Intercontinental Exchange
The First Europeans in North America
The Spanish New World Empire
French and English Explorations and Encounters
The Political Impact of the Reformation
The French Colony in Florida
Fish and Furs
Social Change in Sixteenth-Century England
England Turns toward Colonization
Images
Maps
Vocabulary
Renaissance |
Feudalism |
Bubonic Plague |
Humanism |
Sagres Point |
Caravel |
Reconquista |
Amerigo Vespucci |
Encomienda |
Aztecs |
Tenochtitlan |
Armada |
Huguenots |
Reformation |
Hispaniola |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
Catholicism |
Caribbean |
Mestizo |
Mulatto |
People and Events
Christopher Columbus |
Bubonic Plague |
Crusades |
Prince Henry |
Vasco de Balboa |
Hernan Cortes |
Bartolome de las Casas |
Cabeza de Vaca |
Juan Ponce de Leon |
Hernan de Soto |
Reformation |
King Henry VIII |
Queen Mary |
Elizabeth I |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
Review Questions
Recommended Reading
Cyclone Covey - Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1983).
Alfred W. Crosby Jr., The Columbian Exchange Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972).
David Ewing Duncan, Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas (1995).
Charles Gibson, Spain in America (1996).
Lewis Hanke, The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America (1949).
Miguel Leon-Portilla, The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1962).
Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, A.D. 500-1600 (1971) and The Southern Voyages, A.D. 1492-1616 (1974).
Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the Worlds: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c. 1500-1850 (1995).
David Beers Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke Voyages and Colonies 1584-1606 (1985).
Kirkpatrick Sale, The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (1990).
Carl Ortwin Sauer, Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeans (1971).
David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World (1992).
Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico (1993).