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Chapter 1. Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590. The First Americans . Native American Societies Before Contact Peoples of the Eastern Woodlands . Beginning of European Overseas Expansion. Trade with the East
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Chapter 1 Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590
The First Americans • Native American Societies Before Contact • Peoples of the Eastern Woodlands
Beginning of European Overseas Expansion • Trade with the East • Portugal Explores the West African Coast, 1424–1450
Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade • West African Cultures • The Atlantic Slave Trade Begins
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
Protestant Northern Europeans Challenge Catholic Spain • The Protestant Reformation, 1517–1598 • The Reformation in England, 1534–1588 • French Huguenots and English Sea Dogs