Atlas of Hispanic-American History

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ATLAS OF HISPANIC-AMERICAN HISTORY George Ochoa and Carter Smith Revised Edition Hispanic_FM_HC_FINAL 9/18/08 11:55 AM Page i ...

To Melinda and Martha —G. O. Atlas of Hispanic-American History, Revised Edition Copyright © 2009 by Media Projects Inc. Media P ...

CONTENTS Acknowledgments............................................. iv CHAPTER Introduction v The Roots of a People: The Many ...

NOTE ON PHOTOS Some of the illustrations and photographs used in this book are old, historical images.The quality of the prints ...

A Hispanic is a person who de- scends from one of the world’s Spanish-speaking peoples. Be- hind that simple definition lies the ...

in regarding Hispanics as members of a race, the very nature of being Hispanic, with its tangled mix of ethnic stocks and influe ...

S pain occupies 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, the boxy region that forms the southwest corner of Europe. Portugal, on the ...

Africa, southern Europe, and Asia; via mountain passes through the Pyrenees, Spain received migrants from northern Europe. All o ...

these expert mariners and merchants established trading posts in the southern peninsula. The Greeks began to estab- lish their o ...

(Seville). Rome built public works that still remain, such as the Segovia aqueduct (1st century a.d.), and made Spain a center f ...

Toulouse in present-day France, the Visigoths ruled Spain for three centuries, until 711. Their rule was, in some ways, a contin ...

schooling for the poor. Philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine were all studied; literature, art, and archi- tecture f ...

still widely held, many scholars now argue that there were other avenues of migration as well, including oceangoing travel in th ...

and turkeys could be found on their farms, as could llamas and guinea pigs in South America, but no sheep, cows, or horses (none ...

after 900 many of the lowland Mayan cities were mysteriously abandoned. Despite this collapse in the southern reaches of the emp ...

calendar keeping; by educating their young not only in food preparation and fishing, but also in sculpting, painting, and writin ...

present-day Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina, it resembled a long snake curling through the Andes Mountains. Like th ...

groups were the Araucanian people of Chile and Argentina and the Guaraní of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. Around the ...

THE ROOTS OF A PEOPLE 13 Island Carib and Arawak (A.D. 1492) A common misconception during the Spanish colonization of the Carib ...