Free ebooks ==> http://www.Ebook777.com
A
abalone seashells 147
abolition 180
Acoma Pueblo 114–115,115,
135
adelantado 183 g
adobe 109, 134, 135, 183 g
Africa and Africans xiv, 30, 180
crops in 179
disease from 35
exploration of 12–13
influences on New World of
180
knowledge of in 1492 19
and Portugal 15
and Prester John 23
West Africa 12, 15, 179
Agnese, Battista 16
agriculture 68 .See alsocrops
Aguilar, Jerónimo de 55
Aguirre, Lupe de 79
Aigenler, Adam 147
Alaminos, Antón de 9, 52
Alarcón, Hernando de 112, 112,
113 m
Alaska 161, 167
Albornoz, Rodrigo de 108
alcalde 183g
Alcanfor Pueblo 116
Aleutian Islands 161Alexander VI (pope) 40
Alfraganus 25
Almagro, Diego de 65, 67, 72,
73 m,74, 75, 75
Alvarado, Hernando de 115
Alvarado, Pedro de 60, 61, 73m
Alvarez de Pineda, Alonso 48, 92
Amadis 58
Amazon River xv, 41, 42–43,
77–79, 78m,79,170, 172
Amazons 62, 77, 78
America, naming of 44
Americas 11, 25, 170, 181 m.See
alsoNor th America; South
America
Amichel 48–49, 81
Aminoya 103
Amundsen, Roald 126
Añasco, Juan de 97, 103–104
Andes Mountains 45, 72
Anian, Strait of 62, 64, 126, 126,
164, 167, 169
animals 176, 178. See also specific
headings,e.g.:buffalo
animal skin 23
Año Nuevo 128
Antarctica 125
Antilia 22, 23
Antilia, Seven Cities of 107
antipodes 8Anza, Juan Bautista de 153–154,
159 m
Apache Indians 117, 147, 153
Apalache 82, 83, 97
Aparia 77
apochrypha 18
Arab traders 15
Araucano Indians 79
Arawak Indians 6,30, 32, 49, 179
archaeologists xv
Arctic Ocean 126
Arenal Pueblo 116
Argentina 68,74, 90
Arizona 110, 133, 135, 136,
154–156
Arkansas 101
army 56
Arteaga, Ignacio 159m, 160
artifacts 143
Ascensión, Antonio de la 147, 148
Asia xiii, 19, 44
Americas as distinct from 9
beliefs on navigation to 25
and John Cabot 49
and Christopher Columbus 8,
10, 13, 30, 31, 34, 38, 39
knowledge of in 1492 11, 12,
19
and Prester John 23
astrolabe 18,19, 183 gIndex
{Page numbers in italicindicate a photograph. Page numbers in boldface
indicate box features. Page numbers followed by mindicate maps.
Page numbers followed by gindicate glossary entries.