Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590

1. Chapter 1 Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590

2. The First Americans   • Native American Societies Before Contact • Peoples of the Eastern Woodlands  

3. Beginning of European Overseas Expansion • Trade with the East   • Portugal Explores the West African Coast, 1424–1450  

4. Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade   • West African Cultures  • The Atlantic Slave Trade Begins

5. Spain and Portugal Divide the Globe  • Columbus Sails West, 1492–1493   • Spanish and Portuguese “Spheres,” 1493–1529  • An Expanding World   • The Spanish Empire in America, 1519–1590   • Spanish Invasion, 1519–1538   • Exploration of Florida and the American Southwest, 1528–1542   • Demographic Catastrophe and Cultural Exchange   • Religion  • Spanish Colonial Government   • Spanish Mercantilism   • Forced Labor Systems  

6. Protestant Northern Europeans Challenge Catholic Spain  • The Protestant Reformation, 1517–1598  • The Reformation in England, 1534–1588 • French Huguenots and English Sea Dogs