Discovery of the Americas, 1492-1800

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Discovery of the Americas 1492– TOM SMITH JOHN S. BOWMAN and MAURICE ISSERMAN General Editors ] DISCOVERY & EXPLORATION ...

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To Laraine Smith, my mother, for a lifetime of keeping the faith in good things and To Terry Masai, for reading to me when I was ...

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Note on Photos { Many of the illustrations and photographs used in this book are old, historical images. The quality of the prin ...

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Acknowledgments xi Contents ...

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1 COLUMBUS RETURNS TO SPAIN Introduction xiii Route of Columbus’s First Voyage, The People Who Greeted Columbus Native American ...

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Every history book stands on the shoulders of people who recorded the original events or collected firsthand accounts: in journa ...

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xiii At the end of the 15th century, the lords of Peru’s Inca culture were cer- tain that the known world stopped at the borders ...

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Despite 500 years of intercultural contact, genuine efforts to understand the ancient cul- tures of the New World and early expl ...

Free ebooks ==> http://www.Ebook777.com Matagorda Bay resurrection of Sieur de La Salle’s frigate, La Belle. Perhaps most imp ...

die peacefully but seldom in their own beds. Eliminating stereotypes of fearless navigators, proud conquistadores, tireless miss ...

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The letter in Christopher Columbus’s hands swept away years of rejection and ridicule by everyone who had doubted him. The missi ...