Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World to 1590
Chapter 1
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The First Americans
• Native American Societies Before Contact• Peoples of the Eastern Woodlands
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Beginning of European Overseas Expansion
• Trade with the East • Portugal Explores the West African Coast,
1424–1450
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Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade
• West African Cultures • The Atlantic Slave Trade Begins
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Spain and Portugal Divide the Globe
• Columbus Sails West, 1492–1493 • Spanish and Portuguese “Spheres,” 1493–1529 • An Expanding World • The Spanish Empire in America, 1519–1590 • Spanish Invasion, 1519–1538 • Exploration of Florida and the American Southwest, 1528–
1542 • Demographic Catastrophe and Cultural Exchange • Religion • Spanish Colonial Government • Spanish Mercantilism • Forced Labor Systems
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Protestant Northern Europeans Challenge Catholic Spain
• The Protestant Reformation, 1517–1598 • The Reformation in England, 1534–1588• French Huguenots and English Sea Dogs