1. CH1: The Collision of Cultures

2. America before Columbus
North American Migrations

3. America before Columbus
How the Early North Americans Lived

4. America before Columbus
The Growth of Civilizations: The South
Incas
Mayas
Mexica
The Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan

5. America before Columbus
The Civilizations of the North
Complex and Varied Civilizations
Hunting, gathering, fishing
Mobile Societies
Tribal Cultures
Agricultural Revolution
Gender roles
Iroquois women

6. Europe Looks Westward Commerce and Nationalism
A reawakening of commerce
Centralized Nation-States
Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal)
Advancement in navigational technology

7. Europe Looks Westward Christopher Columbus Columbus’s First Voyage
1492
Religious Motives for Exploration
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus

8. European Exploration and Conquest, 1492-1583
Europe Looks Westward
European Exploration and Conquest,

9. Europe Looks Westward The Conquistadores Spanish America
Cortés conquers the Aztecs
Brutality and greed
Three “g’s” – Gold, God and Glory
Spanish America
Strict control over colonies
Mercantilist system
Catholic missions

10. Europe Looks Westward
Spanish America

11. Europe Looks Westward Northern Outposts St. Augustine (1565)
Santa Fe (1609)
Assimilation and accommodation
Pueblo Ruins in New Mexico

12. 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

13. The Arrival of the English
The Commercial Incentive
The Enclosure movement
Chartered companies
Mercantilism

14. The Arrival of the English
The Religious Incentive
Doctrine of predestination
The English Reformation
Puritan Separatists
Puritan discontent
John Calvin

15. 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 (“runners of the woods”)
Henry Hudson
New Amsterdam

16. The Arrival of the English
The First English Settlements
The Spanish Armada (1588)
Gilbert’s Expedition to Newfoundland
Roanoke
The First Roanoke Colony
New Colonial Charters
“Lost colony” – disappearance is unexplained