The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

10 Prologue Beginnings A sedentary lifestyle promoted population growth in other ways. Infants and toddlers were a nuisance on t ...

The Collapse of Urban Centers 11 An artist’s rendering shows downtown Cahokia, around 1150 CE. Cahokia was surrounded by a palis ...

12 Prologue Beginnings kiva construction. The wooden buildings at Chaco Canyon alone required nearly a quarter of a million tree ...

for mostly herding peoples. Cities emerged in response to the growth of trans-Sahara trade: Finished goods, including cloth from ...

14 Prologue Beginnings Islamic world was nearly as populous, but stretched across three continents, ranging from the North Afric ...

Europe in Ferment 15 profitable, was perfected during the 1440s. By 1500, over 100 cities in Europe had at least one printing pr ...

16 Prologue Beginnings who practiced a hunting-gathering lifestyle were vul- nerable to starvation as well as to encroachments b ...

Research and Explore Pre-Columbian Societies of the Americas,p. 10 SeetheMap Hear the audio file for the Prologue at http://www. ...

18 Some students choose a college for its food, a reason why the Princeton Review now publishes a “Best Campus Food” list. In 20 ...

1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas CONTENTS ■Spanish soldiers, though trapped i ...

20 Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Columbus’s Great Triumph—and Error Columbus was an intelligent and skillfu ...

Primitive compasses and instruments for reckoning lat- itude existed, but under shipboard conditions they were very inaccurate. ...

22 Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Spain’s American Empire Columbus died in 1506. By that time other captains ...

Extending Spain’s Empire to the North 23 world empire. During the 1530s, the monarchy forced all of the leading conquistadors, i ...

24 Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas viceroy of New Spain charged Don Juan de Oñate with the task of conquering ...

Ecological Imperialism 25 In the mid-1690s the Spaniards regained control of most of the upper Rio Grande. Thereafter they maint ...

26 Anthropologist Henry Dobyns (1983) found that when small- pox, measles, or tuberculosis struck some Indian villages, nine- te ...

Western Hemisphere, European conquerors imported African slaves to do more of the work. Indians nevertheless benefited from some ...

28 Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Columbian ExchangeThe Western Hemisphere—the Americas—has for many thousan ...

Spain’s European Rivals 29 OLD WORLD to NEW WORLD Banana (Africa), Orange (India), Dandelions, Horse (Asia), Pigs, Sheep (Europe ...