APUSH: Period 1-Documents
Letters from Columbus to Santangel (3)
1493 Luis de Santangel was a treasurer of the kingdom of Aragon-financed part of the voyage first published in Barcelona 1493 mentions Santangel's influence + money
Castaways (4)
1542-Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca first European book devoted to North America rumors of wealthy civilizations north of Mexico de Vaca just wanted to survive, so he learned about the natives talked about diseases the Europeans brought inspired de Soto + Coronado to explore
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (4)
1552-Bartolome de Las Casas written for Charles I of Spain expressed his concern for the natives-torture, murder, mutilation by Spaniards talks about Black Legend
Secotan, an Algonquian Village (10)
1585 John White present day North Carolina, shows a town without defense fences and stockades charnel house (skeletal remains) place for prayer dance ground two tobacco fields hut for birds + animals field of ripe maize field of newly planted maize place for fire nearby river
The Puzzle of the American Climate in the Early Colonial Period
1982 Karen Kupperman Europeans had to gather information about weather patterns, growing seasons, types of crops- all about mental adjustment
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World
1991 Stephen Greenblalt ways in which Europeans represented non-European peoples + took possession of land in New World
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2)
2001-Daniel Richter keeps the native people center stage throughout the story Indians reinvented themselves after the Europeans came
Central Africans + Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
2002 Linda Heywood understanding African culture + how they reshaped their culture as they interacted with the Portuguese
The Americas to 1620
2014 Christopher L. Miller the reconquista, trade routes, Columbus "discovers" new world, columbian exchange, rise of slave trade
The Discovery of the Americas and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2)
Ira Berlin Europe, Africa, + Americas came together + created a new economy plantations were at the center (sugar)-slave trade began
England on the Eve of Colonization
Paul E. J. Hammer James VI of Scotland moved south to take the crown of England