1492:  An Ongoing Voyage  Admiral Zheng He's Fleet The African Slave Trade (Spartacus Site) The African Slave Trade and European Imperialism "The Age of Discovery" (American Spice Trade Association) Ancient Chinese Explorers:  Zheng He (NOVA) Cities of Gold - The Search for El Dorado (PBS series on "The West")   Colonization & Print in the Americas The Columbian Exchange Columbus & the Age of Discovery Columbus and the Spanish Reconquista - 43 slide Powerpoint presentation The Columbus Navigation Home Page The Conquistadors (PBS) Cultural Readings:  Colonization and Print in the Americas Discoverers Web European Voyages of Exploration:  The 15c and 16c Explorers Web Site (massive links) "The Great Food Migration" - Newsweek, 1991 (special issue) "The High Price of Sugar" - Newsweek, 1991 (special issue) "The History of the World Prior to 1492" - lecture outline The House of Castile-Genealogical (Spain)    The House of Aragon (Spain) Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory Internet Modern History Sourcebook:  "The Early Modern West" Incas and Conquistadors John Harrison and the Longitude Problem Latitude:  The Art & Science of 15c Navigation Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude Map-->"The African Diaspora" Map-->"The Americas Before Columbus: 1450 Map-->"The Atlantic Slave Trade" Map-->"Audiencias of the Viceroyalty of New Spain: 1650 Map-->"Audiencias of the Viceroyalty of Peru: 1650 Map-->"The Dutch Empire and Trade Routes" Map-->"Europe in 1600" Map-->"European Empires-1660" Map-->"The First Voyage of Columbus" Map-->"Ming China: 1368-1644" Map-->"Portuguese Empires in Asia: 1600s" Map-->"Spanish & Portuguese Exploration, 1400-1600" "Measles and Smallpox as an Allied Army of the Conquistadors of America" New Spain:  The Frontiers of Faith NM's Creative Impu;se: The Development of Civilization: World History -- Exploration...The Americas (mucho links) Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade "Plagues & Peoples:  The Columbian Exchange" - essay by Dr. Ian Carr Primary Source Documents on The Age of European Discovery - huge list Prince Henry, the Navigator "Should the Ming End the Treasure Ship Voyages?" - essay by Jean Johnson Sir Francis Drake The Slave Trade (Spartacus) Spanish Colonial Administration (web chart) Spanish Conquest Spanish Exploration & the Conquest of Native America The Spanish Habsburgs:  Genealogical Chart  The Spanish Succession:  Genealogical Chart The Story of the Conquistadors (BBC) Trade Products in Early Modern History The Transformation of Europe in the 15c and Early 16c Where Food Crops Originated:  Seeds of Change Garden

       
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1340:  Francesco Pegolotti - Cathay and the Way Thither 1455-56:  15c Slave Trade-The Portuguese in West Africa 1486:  The Bull of Grenada issued by Innocent VII to Ferdinand and Isabella 1492:  Christopher Columbus - selections from the Journal - First 1492:  Christopher Columbus - selections from the Journal - second 1492:  Christopher Columbus - selections from the Journal - third 1492:  Christopher Columbus - selections from the Journal - fourth 1492:  Christopher Columbus - selections from the Journal - fifth 1492:  Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus 1494:  Columbus' Letter to the King and Queen of Spain 1494:  The Treaty of Tordesillas   1497:  Amerigo Vespucci - Account of His First Voyage  1497:  John Cabot - Voyage to North America 1497-98:  Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India 16c:  The Requerimiento 16c:  Theodore De Bry's Copper Engravings early 16c:  Various documents on the Conquest of Mexico by the Spanish 1500:  Venetian Portolan Chart of Greece and the Aegean area 1511:  Partial Draft of Antonio Montesinos’ Sermon 1511-20:  King Ferdinand's Letter to the Tainos 1512-13:  Laws of Burgos 1519:  An Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest of America 1519-1522:  Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage Round the World 1520:  Cortez' Second Letter to Charles V 1537:  Sublemus Dei - Pope Paul III's encyclical on slavery    1542:  The New Laws of the Indies 1543:  Letter from India, to the Society of Jesus at Rome - St. Francis Xavier 1553:  Letter of a Seville Merchant to His Agent in Lima, Peru 1555:  Decades of the New World - Richard Eden - English merchants at the Royal Court of Benin 1560:  Bartolome de Las Casas on the Five Kings of Hispaniola 1560:  "In Defense of the Indians-The Sermon of Father Montesinos" - Bartolomé de Las Cásas in his book, History of the Indies 1561:  Lope de Aguirre - Letter to King Philip Spain 1565:  Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales - The Founding of St. Augustine 1580s:  various engravings of Theodor De Bry - click on each title midway down the page 1580:  "On Cannibals" - Michel de Montaigne 1584:  Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh 1590:  "The Natural History and Moral of the Indians" - José de Acosta (1)    (2)    1595:  Letter from a Basque Miner in Potosí to a Merchant in Seville 1604:  Samuel de Champlain - Voyages 1606:  The First Virginia Charter 1606:  Instructions for the Virginia Colony 1608:  Samuel de Champlain - The Foundation of Quebec 1617:  England, India, and the East Indies 1617:  Hsu Kuang-Chi - Memorial to Fra Matteo Ricci 1620:  The Mayflower Compact 1621:  Charter of the Dutch West India Company 1626:  The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon 1629:  Charter of Massachusetts Bay 1630:  John Winthrop - A Model of Christian Charity 1634:  A Voyage into the Levant - Henry Blount 1639:  On the Just Price - John Cotton 1664:  England's Treasure by Foreign Trade - Thomas Munn 1690:  The Repartimiento de Beinas:  From Labor to Cash Demands 1700:  An Eyewitness Describes the Slave Trade in Guinea 1713:  "The Geographer" - painting by Johannes Vermeer