knowledge in 24–25
and naming of America 44
and navigation to Asia 25
Germany and Germans 15, 23, 72
glass beads 52
globe 18, 19
Golay, Michael xvi
gold
and Seven Cities of Cíbola
107
and colonization 44
and Christopher Columbus 4,
5, 10, 26, 28–29, 31, 37
concern for 105
and Hernán Cortés 56, 59
El Turco’s stories of 116
evidence of 52
in Great Plains 117
in Lake Guatavita 76
in Guyana 80
in Lake Guatavita 76
La Navidad colony and 30
lessening importance of 170
mines 97
and Native Americans 44
pilfered Aztec 60
and Francisco Pizarro 66, 68,
71, 71
room filled with 71
and Hernando de Soto 95,
101
and Spanish colonists 32
trade for 52
wasting of 173
Golden Gate 129, 150
The Golden Hind(ship) 125–127
grains 178
Granada 14
Grand Canyon xvi, 106, 110–112,
111, 154
Grand Khan 8
Gray, Robert 164, 174
Great Basin Desert 156
Great Britain 174. See alsoEng-
land
Greater Antilles 22, 30
Great Plains 88,106, 116–119
Great Southern Continent 125
Greeks 11, 23
Gr eenwich, England 17
Grenada 22
Guacanagarí (tribal leader) 29
Guachoya Indians 101
Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe
70
Guanahaní Indians 28
Guaraní Indians 91, 175
Guatavita, Lake 76
guaycas 4
Guaycura Indians 64
Guaymi Indians 37
Guevenes Indians 85
Guide to Geography(Ptolemy) 23
Gulf Coast 144
Gulf of California 64, 112, 136,
146
Gulf of Mexico 37, 48, 83,84, 139
Gulf of St. Lawrence 41
Gulf of Urabá 43, 46
Gulf Stream 48, 169
Gutenberg, Johannes 23
Guyana 80
Guzmán, Nuño Beltrán de 107H
Haida Indians 157, 158
Haiti 4, 6,7, 8, 29
hammock 6
harquebuses 93
Harrison, John 172
Hasinai Indians 144
Haustec Indians 49
Hawaiian Islands 160
Háwikuh, pueblo of 107,109,
110, 115
Heceta, Bruno 158, 159m
hemisphere 185 g
Henry the Navigator (prince) 12,
13, 17
hidalgo 185g
hides 85
hieroglyphs 51, 185 g
Hispaniola 22, 29, 30, 31
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
43–45
Christopher Columbus 4, 32,
33, 33,35, 37
gold in 30
revolt in 35
and slavery 34
Taino Indians 6
turmoil at 33History of the Indies(Bartolomé
de Las Casas) 3, 24
Honduras 37, 62
Hopi Indians 110, 111, 111
horses 56, 67, 67,69, 83, 88,117,
176 m,177–178, 178
hostages 96, 99
Huascar 67, 72
Huastec 92
Huayno Capac (Inca emperor) 67
Huguenots 105
Huitzilpochtli 60
Humaña, Gutiérrez 135, 136
human sacrifice 51, 57, 58
Humboldt, Alexander von 172
Hutten, Philip von 79I
Iberian Peninsula 22
Icelanders 24
Ifigenia(ship) 166
Iguaçu Falls 91
iguana (derivation of word) 6
Imago Mundi(Pierre d’Ailly) 25
immunity (from disease) 49
Imperial Valley 154
Inca Empire and Indians xiii, xv,
10, 68–69, 173
civil war in 67, 68, 72
destruction of 66
Machu Picchu xv, 68, 69
and ocean crossing 11
and Francisco Pizarro 67–72
rebellion in 75
Royal Inca Highway 68, 68
and slaver y 179
welcome of Spanish by 70
India 25, 40
Indian Ocean 13, 37
“the Indies” 2–4, 8, 30, 32, 33
indigenous 185g
Indigenous Peoples Day xiv
Industrial Revolution 180
influenza 35
instruments (for navigation)
18–19, 19
International Day of the World’s
Indigenous People xiv
Ipai Indians 120
Iriarte, Pedro de 143, 144
Irish-Americans xiv