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 Impulse: 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 "The Western Traditions" video series on line - The Annenburg Foundation 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