Latin American Colonial Era

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Tomb of Vasco da Gama in Jeronimos Monastery, Belem, Lisbon, Portugal

 
 
Black Legend Spanish Atrocities
Black Legend Cannibalism

 


Columbian Exchange



 

Syphilis in Vienna, 1496
Syphilis in Europe, 1496

 


Nova Typis Transacta Navigatio
 
 


1500 map by Juan de la Cosa

EXPLORERS AND CONQUISTADORS
Exploration: The Americas
Hernán Cortés
Juan de Grijalva
Pedro de Alvarado
Bartolome de las Casas
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490-1557)
Francisco de Montejo
Francisco Pizarro
Juan Ponce de Leon
Gonzalo de Sandoval
Cristobal de Olid
Diego Velazquez
[Francisco Hernández de Córdoba] Headless remains of Nicaragua's conquistador founder discovered (Miami Herald, May 22, 2000)
Henry VII, First Letters Patent Granted to John Cabot and His Sons (1496)
 

ARTICLES
Black Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Early Spanish America
'Conquistadors': A Conquest Whose Daring Matched Its Cruelty (New York Times, May 6, 2001)
'Conquistadors': PBS Examines the Spanish Invasion of the New World (New York Times, May 9, 2001)
Disease Transfer at Contact
The Introduction of the Horse into the Western Hemisphere
The Map That Named America May Now Call It Home (New York Times, Sept. 4, 2001)
Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown's Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America
 

RELIGION
Vatican Is Investigating the Inquisition, in Secret (New York Times, Oct. 31, 1998)
 

VIDEOS
Conquista De América y sus Consecuencias (52:51 min.)