A Meeting of Three Worlds:

Europe, Africa, and

American Colonization

1492–1680ASLO

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Peoples of the New World

1492: Why were the native people in the Americas called Indians? Why do we call these

land masses "America"?

Centralized Empires in Central and South America

Dispersed Societies to the North

Eastern Woodland Indians

America’s Peoples at Contact

The Background to Overseas Expansion: Europe and Africa

1518: Hernan Cortez Expedition to Conquer Mexico for "King, God and Gold"

Politics, Religion, and Commerce in Western Europe

Society and Trade in West Africa

The Invasion of the Americas Begins: Portugal, Spain, and

the Need for Labor

Overseas Expansion and Conquest

The Need for Labor

Africa and the American Slave Trade

Captivity and the Middle Passage

Early Colonization Effortsin North America

Exploration

The French and Dutch

The English Colonial Experience

The Roots of English Migration to America

Colonizing the Chesapeake

Colonizing New England

The English Revolution and Its Effects on the Colonies

Native Americans: Decline, Resistance and Change

Adaptation and

Negotiation

Resistance and Warfare

Coexistence on the Middle Ground