Why Europeans explored
Spanish exploration after Columbus
Other European explorers
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Primary sources
Letter of Columbus to Luis de Santangel (1493)
Key figures
Key events summary
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Vocabulary
Unit 1 topics
Unit 1 overview1.1Contextualizing Period 11.2Native American Societies Before European Contact1.3European Exploration in the Americas1.4Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest1.5Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System1.6Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans1.7Causation in Period 1