A History of America in 100 Maps
CONTACT AND DISCOVERY 21 AMERICA LOOMS INTO VIEW At the end of the nineteenth century, the British Museum (whose library later b ...
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CONTACT AND DISCOVERY 23 The last three maps underscore the radical disruption that the early era of exploration brought to Euro ...
24 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS THE HEMISPHERE TAKES SHAPE By 1540 European geographers and mapmakers acknowledged that the ...
CONTACT AND DISCOVERY 25 Verrazzano sought a route to the Far East. While exploring the coast of North Carolina, he mistook Paml ...
26 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The Spanish were the first Europeans to explore any part of the North American interior. Amo ...
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CONTACT AND DISCOVERY 29 At the western edge of the map (on page 26) Gastaldi delineated the Strait of Anián. This was the first ...
30 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS This large, flamboyant, and detailed map of the western hemisphere is first and foremost a d ...
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32 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Through most of the sixteenth century, Spain was the most powerful nation on earth and the d ...
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D iego Gutiérrez boldly claimed the Americas for the Spanish Crown in his 1562 map, as we saw in the last chapter. Yet Spain exe ...
claims along the Hudson River near Manhattan. But when their voyage was blown off course to the north, they established the Plym ...
36 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS At first glance this map is a complete mystery: the geography is unrecognizable, the place n ...
EARLY SETTLEMENT AND THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE 37 ...
38 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS This hope of a river passage was abruptly dashed when Tindall and his party came up against ...
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