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Contact and Conquest

Contact and Conquest. The European Invasion of the Americas. The Portuguese Explorations. Prince Henry “The Navigator” (1394-1460) Commercial Motivations and Agenda West African Beginnings The Origins of the Slave Trade The Canaries and Azores: The First Plantations Vasco da Gama, 1498.

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Contact and Conquest

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  1. Contact and Conquest The European Invasion of the Americas

  2. The Portuguese Explorations • Prince Henry “The Navigator” (1394-1460) • Commercial Motivations and Agenda • West African Beginnings • The Origins of the Slave Trade • The Canaries and Azores: The First Plantations • Vasco da Gama, 1498

  3. The Beginnings of Spain’s American Empire • Fernando, Isabella, and the Reconquista • Columbus’s Voyages • Not Asia, but “America” • Amerigo Vespucci

  4. The Spanish Conquests • The Conquistadores • Hernán Cortés & the Aztecs (1519-1521) • Francisco Pizarro & the Incas (1533) • Factors behind the Conquest • Technology • Disease • Indigenous Politics & Native Allies • Were the Spanish “Gods?” • The Legacies of Conquest • Physical and Political • Ecological • Spiritual

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